Stumbling Stones Contrescarpe 93

These small, brass, memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

Henriette Bromberger (born 1882, murdered in Minsk)
Dora Bromberger (born 1881, murdered in Minsk)
Martha Ginsberg (born 1879, murdered in Minsk)
Isidor Plessner (born 1881, murdered in Minsk)
Margarethe Plessner (born 1891, murdered in Minsk)
Ignatz Tuchmann (born 1897, murdered in Minsk)

The Nazis declared this building as a "Judenhaus." All six residents were deported on 18 November 1941 to the Minsk ghetto, and all were declared dead at the end of the war.

Henriette and Dora Bromberger were sisters and artists.

Martha Ginsberg was the widow of Sally Ginsberg, who died in 1933. They had 3 children. Their son Walter was also killed in the Shoah; another son Hermann and a daughter Anna survived.

Isidor Plessner, a merchant and widower, and Margarethe Plessner, a widow, married in 1940.

Ignatz Tuchmann was a carpenter, unmarried.

"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 pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. 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."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Bremen (in German).