Stumbling Stones Weberstraße 26

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Rosalie Hurwitz
Sally Kupferschlag
Anna Kupferschlag

Two of them survived.

Anna & her husband Sam Cooper (their names in the USA) did survive the Second World War. They made it to Chicago and Anna lived her years in Chicago until around 1970, finally in the Drexel Home on the south side of Chicago. Her brother, his wife and child and their sister (Emma Weinberg Rosenwald) all lived on the south side of Chicago after arriving from Germany in the 1930s.

The small brass 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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