Stumbling Stones Gertrudisstraße 10

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Sara Röttgen (born 1861, murdered in Theresienstadt in 1942)
Ernst Röttgen (born 1886, murdered in Auschwitz)
Günter Röttgen (born 1920, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942)
Werner Röttgen (born 1922, murdered in Auschwitz)

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: TracesOfWar.com