Stumbling Stone Leibnizstraße 32

This memorial stone (so called Stolperstein or stumbling block) commemorates Osias Max Schapira, murdered or disappeared in the Holocaust.

BORN 09/23/1893 in Lemberg / Lwów
ESCAPE
escape to Austria in 1937; Escape to France in 1938
DEPORTATION on July 17, 1942 from Pithiviers to Auschwitz
MURDERED 09/02/1942 in Auschwitz

Osias Max Schapira was born on September 23, 1893 in Lemberg (now Lwów). He lived in Leipzig before moving to Leibnitzstraße 37 in Berlin. In 1936 he was arrested in Berlin. Schapira was first imprisoned in Berlin-Tegel, then in Brandenburg prison. On July 4, 1936, he was expelled from there to Austria. In 1938 he fled to France.

After the beginning of World War II and the occupation of France, Schapira was interned in the Pithiviers transit camp and deported from there to Auschwitz on July 17, 1942. Osias Max Schapira was murdered in Auschwitz on September 2, 1942.

The small copper plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

In many other cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, the memorials also can be found. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still counting. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

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