Stumbling Stones Offenbacher Straße 7

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Salomon Reiss (born 1882, murdered in Theresienstadt on 6-7-1942)
Lilli Reiss (born 1883, murdered in Auschwitz)
Selma Reiss (born 1907, murdered in Auschwitz)
Hertha Reiss (born 1908, murdered in Auschwitz)
Irene Reiss (born 1909, murdered in Auschwitz)
Gertrude Reiss (born 1913, 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 Offenbach am Main (in German).

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Source

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