Stumbling Stones Mittelstraße 39

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Jakob Levy, born 1877, deported to Thersienstadt and murdered on 12.02.1943.
Selma Levy (born 1886) 1942 deported to Auschwitz and murdered there.
Frieda Levy (born 1891) deported to Minsk en murdered there.
Sally Levy (born 1884) deported to Minsk and murdered there.
Alfred Cahn (born 1893) deported to Lodz and murdered there.

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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries / Peter Schipper
• Photos: Peter Schipper