Stumbling Stones Aachener Straße 443

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Arnold Altberger (born 1905, faith unknown)
Amalie Banner (born 1923, murdered in Warsaw in 1941)
Selma Banner (born 1924, murdered in Warsaw)
Rosa Seiden (born 1911, murdered in Auschwitz)
Therese Wallach (born 1895, suicide 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 information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine in Cologne (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Johan Tjallingii