Stumbling Stones Schaevenstraße 4

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Edith Baum (born 1922, murdered in Chelmno in 1944)
Ernst Baum (born 1895, murdered in Lodz on 13-8-1942)
Selma Baum (born 1897, murdered in Lodz on 2-4-1943)
Irma Cossmann (born 1900, murdered in Stutthof)
Sybilla Cossmann (born 1897, murdered in Riga)
Emma Selma Kahn (born 1894, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Herbert Kahn (born 1932, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Josef Kahn (born 1899, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Julius Rosenfeld (born 1874, murdered in Lodz on 10-5-1942)
Manfred Rosenfeld (born 1921, faith unknown)
Sophie Rosenfeld (born 1890, murdered in Lodz on 6-10-1942)
Hedwig Scheiner (born 1891, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Friedrich Wolf (born 1891, murdered in Lodz on 29-11-1943)
Hedwig Wolf (born 1896, murdered in Lodz on 12-2-1944)
Heinz Adolf Wolf (born 1920, survived Buchenwald en Meuselwitz)
Judis Wolf (born 1940, murdered in Chelmno in September 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 information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine in Cologne (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Johan Tjallingii