Stumbling Stones Steinweg 15

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Elisabeth Bärmann (murdered in Riga)
Hugo Bärmann (murdered in Riga)
Klaus Bärmann (murdered in Riga)
Erna Kahn (murdered in Riga)
Moritz Kahn (murdered in Riga)
Friederike Rothschild (murdered in Chelmno in September 1942)
Emilie Friederike Schoenbach (murdered in Lodz)
Helga Schoenbach (murdered in Lodz)

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 information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine in Cologne (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com