Stumbling Stone Nonntaler Hauptstraße 1

This Stolperstein (stumbling stone) commemorates:
*Angela Weil née Roederer, born 1895, deported 1942, Piaski, murdered.

Angela Roederer and Franz Weil, both born in Prague, married and had two children -- Lore (b. 1925) and Herbert (b. 1930). Dr. Franz Weil taught physics, then was employed by I.G. Farben in Germany in the 1930s. In 1935, concerned about their safety, he sent his wife and children to Salzburg. When the Germans annexed Austria in June 1938, the Weils left, ending up in Amsterdam while Franz went to England to arrange emigration there. Then in 1941, with help from a Jewish children’s aid society, Angela sent the children to a provincial school in the Netherlands while she returned to Germany to teach in a Catholic school. She was arrested in 1942 and interned in a camp on Knorrstrasse in Munich. She was deported to Piaski on 4 April 1942. The time and place of her death are not known. Her husband and children survived: after the liberation, the children joined their father in England.

"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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