Stumbling Stone Vogelsanger Straße 1

This memorial stone (so called Stolperstein of stumbling block) commemorates:

Dr. Isidor Caro (born 1876, murdered in Theresienstadt in 1943)
Dr. Fritz Valk (geb. 1898, escaped and murdered)
Fritz Kaufmann (geb. 1920, murdered in Mauthausen in 1945)
Hermann Caro (geb. 1915, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943)
Walter Klein (geb. 1918, murdered in Auschwitz in 1944)
Gottfried Ballin (geb. 1914, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943)
Dr. Alber Kramer (geb. 1887, murdered in Lodz in 1942)
Dr. Artur Weinmann (geb. 1883, murdered in Polen)
Dr. Rudolf Moritz Lowenstein (geb. 1899, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943)
Dr. Richard Gatzert (geb. 1887, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943)
Dr. Wilhelm Dreyer (geb. 1891, murdered in Auschwitz in 1944)
Dr. Ernst Leffmann (geb. 1899, depoted to Bergen Belsen) Zug der verlorenen
Albert Cohen (geb. 1902, murdered in Riga in 1941)
Paul Schay (geb. 1905, murdered in Riga in 1941)
Kurt Bernhard Francken (geb. 1909, murdered in Riga in 1941)
Ernst Benjamin Hoffmann (geb. 1900, murdered in Riga in 1941)
Dr. Albert Anselm Loeb (geb. 1884, murdered in Lodz in 1942)
Franz Baumann (geb. 1897, murdered in Auschwitz in 1945)
Wilhelm Hermann Lowenstein (geb. 1900, murdered in Lodz in 1942)
Richard Rosendahl (geb. 1915, deportered to Auschwitz in 1943 - survived)
Carl Benjamin (geb. 1918, murdered in Auschwitz in 1944)
Ernst Hermann Pelzer (geb. 1896, murdered in Lodz in 1942)
Hans Rollmann (geb. 1877, ecaped and killed in Calais 1940)

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