Stumbling Stones Uhlstraße 31-33

These small, brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Leopold Bähr, born 1897, deported 1942, destination unknown, declared dead.
* Leo Kahn, born 1875, deported 1941, Riga, murdered 1942.
* Adelheide Kahn née Baum, born 1882, deported 1941, Riga, murdered 1942.

Leopold Bähr was born in Brühl and lived there and in Hamburg. He was a house painter and a dealer in used items. In 1922 he married Chlothilde Römbell, who was not Jewish. In September 1938, he fled to Belgium and then to France; his wife and their two children remained in Brühl. In May 1940, he was interned briefly in St. Cyprien and then sent to Drancy transit camp. On 4 September 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz. Lack of documentation meant that he was declared dead. His wife and children survived.

Leo Kahn, a butcher, and Adelheide Baum married. No other information was found about their lives other than that her name appears as Adelheide, Adelheid, and Adel. On 7 December 1941, they were deported from Köln (about 20km north of Brühl) to Riga and murdered in February 1942.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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