Stumbling Stones Essener Straße 2

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Alfred Cohn (born 1890, murdered in Minsk)
Erna Cohn (born 1901, murdered in Minsk)
Gerda Cohn (born 1924, murdered in Auschwitz on 19-8-1942)
Herbert Cohn (born 1926, murdered in Auschwitz)

The small brass plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were persecuted or 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 Bottrop (in German).

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Source

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