Stumbling Stones Elisabethenstraße 32

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Adolf Weiss (born 1883, murdered in Izbica)
Mina Weiss (born 1888, murdered in Izbica)
Erna Schwarzschild (born 1914, escaped)
Julius Schwarzschild (born 1912, escaped)

The small brass plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were persecuted or murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

In many other cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, the memorials also can be found. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still counting. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Hofheim am Taunus (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com