Stumbling Stone Sandower Straße 2

This small brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:
* Max Levy, born 1894, 'protective custody' 1938 Sachsenhausen, deported 1942 Warsaw Ghetto, ??? [fate unknown].

After the November 1938 Pogrom (named "Kristallnacht" by the Nazis), Max Levy was put into so-called ‘protective custody’ along with other Cottbus Jews. He was released on 13 December 1938, but by law, he could no longer run his business. Four years later, he was deported to the Warsaw ghetto, where traces of him disappeared. He was probably murdered there.

At Mühlenstraße 37 in Cottbus is a Stolperstein for his two sisters -- Gertrud Levy, who was arrested and put into the Cottbus Women’s Prison, where she killed herself, and Berta Lippmann née Levy, who was murdered at Auschwitz.

"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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