Stumbling Stones Brabanter Straße 18

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Charlotte Bruckmann (born 1924, survived Auschwitz)
Hermann Josef Lippmann (born 1928, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Martha Lippmann (born 1898, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Emil Wolff (born 1875, murdered in Chelmno on 13-5-1942)
Olga Wolff (born 1885, murdered in Lodz on 25-5-1942)

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