Stumbling Stones Lessingstraße 6

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Gotthold Stoppelmann, born 1873, deported 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered in Auschwitz.
* Dorothea Stoppelmann née Hamburger, born 1875, deported 1942 to Theresienstadt, dead 29 December 1942.

Asarias Gotthold Stoppelmann married Dorothea Hamburger. They had a son who survived and provided testimony in 1977 to Yad Vashem.

Both Gotthold and Dorothea were deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on Transport I/67 on 22 September 1942. She died there "owing to neglect and food shortage," according to their son. On 16 May 1944 Gotthold Stoppelmann was transported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.

"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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