Stumbling Stones Emser Straße 48

These small, brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* Isabella Kahn nee Berg, born 1898, deported 1942 Theresienstadt, murdered 15 May 1944 Auschwitz.
* Lotte Kahn, born 1921, deported 1943 Auschwitz, killed herself March 1943 on the electric fence.
* Siegfried Samuel Kahn, born 1882, deported 1942 Theresienstadt, murdered 15 May 1944 Auschwitz.
* Leo Kahn, born 1926, fled 1938 to Holland, deported Auschwitz, murdered 2 September 1942

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 Wiesbaden (in German).

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Source

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