Stumbling Stones Hohe Straße 35

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Ruth Rosenberg (murdered in Treblinka)
Emil Rosenberg (born 1887, murdered in Treblinka)
Fanny Rosenberg (murdered in Treblinka)
Ester Blum (murdered in Theresienstadt on 8-12-1942)
Karl Kaufmann (murdered in Auschwitz)
Ruth Kaufmann (shot in France on 23-5-1940)
Lothar Kaufmann (shot in France on 23-5-1940)

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 Offenbach am Main (in German).

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Source

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