Stumbling Stone Hackstraße 16

This small, brass, memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Gertrud Bogner, born 1891, admitted 1937 to Stetten Sanitorium, murdered 18 September 1940, Grafeneck, Action T4.

Gertrud Bogner was born on 11 June 1891. An accountant, she never married. She lived with her family here at Hackstraße 16 in East Stuttgart. Her father died in 1919. In 1928, she was diagnosed with a mental illness. After 5 months in hospital, she returned home to her mother. When her mother died in 1937, her brother could not take care of her. So Gertrud was taken to the Stetten Sanatorium. As part of the Nazi "T4" program to murder people with mental and physical disabilities, on 18 September 1940, Gertrud Bogner and 59 other Stetten patients were taken in one of the infamous grey buses to Grafeneck and murdered there the same day. She was 49.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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