Stumbling Stones Tribseer Straße 22

These small brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* Adolph Gerson, born 1872, dispossessed 1938, humiliated / harrassed, dead 1938.
* Natan Gerson, born 1920, deported, Auschwitz, murdered 1942.
* Johanna Gerson née Kuhnreuter, born 1885, deported, Auschwitz, murdered 1942.

Adolph Gerson was a merchant and coal dealer. After persecution by the Nazis, he died of heart failure in 1938. His gravestone in the Stralsund Jewish Cemetery has the words "mein geliebter, treuer Mann" and "der gute Vater u. Bruder".

Information found on the year of death for Adolph’s wife Johanna and their son Natan is not consistent with the information on their stolpersteine.

Yad Vashem, citing the German Federal Archives, states that Johanna Gerson née Kuhnreuter was deported on 19 February 1943 from Berlin to Auschwitz and murdered.

Natan Gerson (and spelling variants) does not appear in the Yad Vashem or the US Holocaust Memorial Museum databases. Geni.com shows Adolf’s and Johanna’s son was Heinrich Gerson, born 1920; no nickname was given. In Yad Vashem, Heinrich Heinz Gerson, born 1920 in Stralsund, was deported on the same 19 February 1943 train to Auschwitz as Johanna Gerson.

What is clear is that Johanna and Natan/Heinrich were deported to Auschwitz and did not survive.

"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."

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: wie-wolf
• Stolpersteine in Stralsund
• Gravestone for Adolf Gerson
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu