Stumbling Stones Oranienburger Straße 90

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Isodor Vogel, born 1881, deported 1943 Theresienstadt, lost, presumed dead [verschollen].
* Bertha Vogel née Becker, born 1887, deported 1943 Theresienstadt, lost, presumed dead.
* Paul Gerhard Vogel, born 1921, deported 1943, Auschwitz, murdered.

The Vogel family lived at this address from 1940-1942. Isodor had a small business selling and repairing gold and silver items and repairing watches.

Son Paul Gerhard Vogel was deported first – on 2 March 1943 – and was murdered on an unknown date in Auschwitz. Isodor and Bertha Vogel were deported two weeks after their son on an elder transport to Theresienstadt. Yad Vashem’s information from the German Federal Archives indicates that Isodor’s death was 8 October 1944 in Theresienstadt. The next day, Bertha was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

"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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Thom Quine (1) & Axel Mauruszat (2,3,4)
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Stolpersteine in Berlin: Isodor Vogel
• Stolpersteine.eu