Stumbling Stone Heinrichstraße 43

This Stolperstein (also called Stumbling Stone) commemorates:
ERNST JOSEPH TRIER (born 1886, suicide in prison on 18-9-1938)

Due to increasing anti-Jewish measures, Joseph Trier decided to give up his factory in the autumn of 1938. He wanted to emigrate to England. The Gestapo arrested him for a trumped-up offence involving foreign currency. In September 1938, 52-year-old Ernst Trier was found hanged in the Rundeturmstraße prison in Darmstadt.

‘Stolpersteine’ is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (trip stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque bears the victim's name, date of birth and their fate. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: ‘A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.’

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• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Nick Trier
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