Stumbling Stones Burgunder Straße 44

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Karl Max Jacoby (born 1879, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Bernhard Schmitz (born 1892, murdered in Lodz on 23-7-1942)
Selma Schmitz (born 1896, murdered in Chelmno in September 1942)
Hermann Wallach (born 1873, murdered in Theresienstadt on 7-2-1943)
Hermine Wallach (born 1872, murdered in Theresienstadt on 1-4-1944)

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