Stumbling Stone Drakestraße 53

This memorial stone (Stolperstein or stumbling block) commemorates:

* Ella Weinberg, born 1888, deported, murdered in Riga.

Ella Weinberg was born to Jewish parents in 1888, She was a stenographer and a secretary until 1937. In 1938, Ella Weinberg was baptized in the Protestant Church. Nevertheless, she was deported from Berlin 19 January 1942, to Riga, on Transport 9 with 995-1002 Jewish men, women, and children, most from Berlin itself. Two months earlier (November-December 1941), in order to make room in the overcrowded Riga Ghetto for the planned Berlin arrivals, the Nazis had taken more than 27,500 Jewish residents of the ghetto to the Rumbula Forest and had shot them.

"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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