Stumbling Stones Billhorner Mühlenweg

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Wilhelm Adler (born 1881, murdered in Theresienstadt on 6-12-1942)
Bertha Wartelski (born 1882, executed in Riga on 26-3-1942)
Louis Wartelski (born 1879, suicide on 28-9-1938)
Otto Mende (born 1907, executed in Untersuchungsgefängnis Hamburg on 26-6-1944)
Robert Wedeking (born 1897, murdered in Mainkofen on 27-8-1944)

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