Stumbling Stones Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 5

These Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones commemorate:
* Hermann Liegner, born 1888, deported 1942, Warsaw Ghetto, ??? [fate unknown].
* Rosa Flanter née Lewin, born 1858, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, dead 29 August 1942.
* Paul Flanter, born 1895, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, ???.
* Arthur Israelski, born 1885, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, dead 16 May 1944.
* Horst Israelski, born 1921, deported 1943, murdered in Auschwitz.
* Elfriede Israelski née Miodownik, born 1893, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, murdered in Auschwitz

The residents at this address were taken away at different times.

Hermann Liegner, a merchant, was deported in April 1942 to the Warsaw Ghetto at the same time as his older brother’s family who also lived in Cottbus. (See their stolpersteine at at Kochstraße 11, Cottbus.)

Paul Flanter was deported in April 1942 to Theresienstadt; information about his death is unknown.

Next to be deported – on the last deportation train from Cottbus on 24 August 1942 to Theresienstadt -- were husband and wife, Arthur Israelski and Elfriede Israelski and Paul Flanter’s mother, Rosa Flanter. Rosa, age 84, died 5 days later. Arthur survived another 2 years in Theresienstadt; Elfriede was then deported to Auschwitz 5 months after his death.

Finally, the Israelskis’ son Horst Israelski, age 22, was deported from Berlin on 01 March 1943 to Auschwitz, where he was killed.

"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: wie-wolf
• List of Jewish Residents of Cottbus
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu