Stumbling Stones Lessingstraße

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Louis Schloss (born 1881, murdered in Riga in 1942)
Johanna Schloss (born 1885, murdered in Riga in 1942)
Helmut Schloss (born 1915, escaped)
Lotte Strauß (born 1913, escaped)
Jeanette Bildesheim (born 1850, died on 20-8-1939)

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 Wolfenbüttel (in German).

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Source

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