Stumbling Stones Zschopauer Straße 107

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

* Avram Avramovici, born 1885, deported 1942, Belzyce, after trying to escape, murdered.
* Alta Basia Avramovici née Rosen, born 1889, deported 1942, Belzyce, after trying to escape, murdered.

Avram Avramovici, a German citizen born in Romania, married Alta Basia Rosen, a Polish-born German. No other information was learned about their lives before their deportation.

On 10 May 1942, the couple and up to 130 other Jews from Chemnitz and Plauen were taken to Leipzig to join around 800-1000 others in cattle cars on a train from Weimar that arrived in Lublin two days later. Passengers then walked 4-5 hours from the train station to Belzyce. This and other deportations doubled the Jewish population in Belzyce to about 4,500. Harsh conditions of overcrowding and poor food and sanitation meant many died of illness and starvation. At some point, Avram (age 56) and Alta Basia (52) Avramovici attempted to escape, but they were captured and 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."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Chemnitz (in German).

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