Stumbling Stones Andreasstraße 23

These Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones commemorate:
* Moritz Mayer, born 1884, deported 1942 to Piaski, murdered in Belzec.
* Irma Mayer nee Neumann, born 1899, deported 1942 to Piaski, murdered in Belzec.

Moses Moritz Mayer, a wine merchant and his wife Irma Neumann Mayer had 3 children, all of whom apparently survived the war.

Moritz and Irma were forced with other Worms residents to assemble at the Jewish Community Center and to walk through town to the freight station. They were deported via Mainz to Darmstadt for the final transports to the Piaski ghetto, arriving on 25 March 1942.

By 1942 the walled-off Piaski ghetto had become an important transition point in the Lublin area. Deportees were held there only until the next train arrived to take them onward to death camps at Belzec or Sobibor. Both Moritz and Irma were murdered in Belzec.

"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."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Worms (in German). The Mayers' stolpersteine were part of the "Fünfte Verlegung" on 3 May 2010.

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