Stumbling Stone Große Straße 69

This small, brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:
* Margarete Hirsch, born 1881, deported, murdered in Minsk.

Margarete Hirsch was a German citizen born in Flensburg and later moved elsewhere. According to the German Federal Archives, she was a housewife who was was deported on Train Da 52, a freight train. No information was found about her family.

The collection point for Da 52 was the slaughterhouse next to the railway line in Düsseldorf, where most of the 600+ deportees lived. Da 52 departed from the freight station on 10 November and arrived in Minsk 5 days later. About 1 in 8 of these deportees was killed by malnutrition or disease within 8 months of their arrival in Minsk. By the end of the war, most of the people held in the Minsk ghetto had been killed.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project in 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 or sometimes the hiding address of (mostly Jewish) victims murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is stamped with the victim's name, date of birth, and place (often a Concentration Camp) and date of death. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: "A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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