Stumbling Stones Eppsteiner Straße 5

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Leopold Cahn (born 1878, murdered in Theresienstadt on 1-4-1944)
Paul Gross (born 1883, murdered in Lodz on 13-8-1942)
Elsa Gross (born 1895, murdered in Lodz on 14-1-1942)
Blanka Hirsch (born 1893, murdered in Raasiku)
Julius Hirsch (born 1888, suicide on 16-10-1942)
Gottlieb Rosenfeld (born 1869, murdered in Theresienstadt on 25-1-1943)
Auguste Strauss (born 1873, murdered in Kaunas on 25-11-1941)

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 Frankfurt am Main (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com