Stumbling Stones Richard-Dehmel-Straße 1

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Ida Dehmel (born 1870, suicide on 29-9-1942)
Peter Hess (born 1908, murdered in Auschwitz on 29-1-1943)
Irene Hess (born 1873, murdered in Theresienstadt on 15-4-1943)
Lina Wolff (born 1882, murdered in Lodz)

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 Hamburg.

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Source

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