Stumbling Stones Steinstraße 50

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
August Dreike (born 1889, murdered in Steinwache on 23-1-1945)
Josef Fillo (born 1879, murdered in Steinwache on 24-4-1943)
Heinrich Flach (born 1899, suicide in Steinwache on 2-4-1938)
Alfred Hillmer (born 1893, murdered in Steinwache on 18-6-1934)
Eduard Niestatek (born 1904, murdered in Steinwache on 25-3-1941)
Georg Schmidt (born 1905, murdered in Steinwache 22-3-1934)

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 Dortmund (in German).

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Source

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