Stumbling Stones Im Kreise 24

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

* Adolf Schickler, born 1867, deported 1943, Theresienstadt, dead 12 May 1943.
* Hulda Schickler née Levy, born 1869, deported 1943, Theresienstadt, dead 08 January 1945.

Adolf Schickler and Hulda Levy married and had four children, all born in the 1890s. Adolf and Hulda ran a specialty shop in Lüneburg, Germany, for shoes and boys’ and men’s clothing, and he was a leader in the Jewish community. The couple retired from the shop in 1929, and their oldest son took over the business.

On 16 March 1942, Adolf and Hulda were taken to a Celle Judenhaus at this address at Im Kreis 24. The next year in February they were moved to another Judenhaus in Hamburg. Three months later, on 5 May 1943, in a small transport of 50 persons (VI/6), they were both deported to Theresienstadt, arriving there on 7 May. Adolf was 76, Hulda 74. He was dead 5 days later. Hulda survived another 16 months.

Their four children all escaped the Holocaust, living into their 70s and 80s in New York City or New Jersey in the US.

Other stolpersteine for Adolf and Hulda Schickler were installed at Grosse Bäckerstrasse 23 in Lüneburg, Germany, where they lived before being relocated to Celle.

"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."

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: AnnAbulf (1), Bernd Schwabe (2)
• Celle Entdecken: Hulda & Adolf Schickler
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• holocaust.cz
• Yad Vashem: Transport VI/6, Hamburg-Theresienstadt
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu