Stumbling Stones Marktstraße 6

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Klara Mayer (born 1903, murdered in Lodz in juli 1942)
Leo Mayer (born 1904, murdered in Lodz)
Ruth Mayer (born 1933, murdered in Lodz)

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: TracesOfWar.com