Stumbling Stones Neustädter Straße 13

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

* Bertha Pakulla née Ury, born 1870, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, dead 16 September 1942.
* Egon Breslauer, born 1889, deported 1942, Warsaw Ghetto, ???
* Lotte Breslauer née Pakulla, born 1897, deported 1942, Warsaw Ghetto, ???
* Ursula Breslauer, born 1930, deported 1942, Warsaw Ghetto, ???

The stolperstein for Bertha Pakulla was installed in September 2006. Then in July 2007, stolpersteine were added for her daughter, Lotte Breslauer, son-in-law and merchant, Egon Breslauer, and their 12-year-old daughter, Ursula.

No information was found about their lives other than where they were born. Bertha Pakulla was born in West Prussia, both Lotte and Ursula were born in Cottbus, and Egon Breslauer was born in Posen. All were deported in 1942 – first the three Breslauers in April to the Warsaw Ghetto, and then Bertha Pakulla in August to Theresienstadt. One source (Chris Webb, The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance) says that the three Breslauers were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka.

"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 victim’s with the 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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