Stumbling Stones Hattinger Straße 779

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Emil Röttgen (born 1882, murdered in Sobibor in 1943)
Erna Röttgen (born 1897, murdered in Sobibor in 1943)
Eva Emma Röttgen (born 1929, murdered in Sobibor in 1943)
Hanna Röttgen (born 1924, murdered in Auschwitz in 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.

For more pictures and information, please visit Stolpersteine in Bochum (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Peter Schipper