Stumbling Stones Essener Straße 2

These brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on 10-10-2007 commemorate:

* ALFRED COHN (born 1890, deported 1941 Minsk, fate unknown)
* ERNA COHN-ABRAHAM (born 1901, deported Minsk, fate unknown)
* GERDA COHN (born 1924, fled 1938 Holland, murdered in Auschwitz 19-8-1942)
* HERBERT COHN (born 1926, murdered in Auschwitz 1945) *

These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

"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 sidewalk in front of a known residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. 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.”

* The year of death indicated on the stone does not match the date of death in the archives. There it is mentioned that Herbert Cohn was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz at the same time as his sister Gerda and was murdered there on 19-8-1942.

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