Stumbling Stones Marienthaler Straße 126

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Adolf Lorenz (born 1877, murdered in Minsk)
Elsa Bettelheim (born 1884, murdered in Riga)
Paul Bettelheim (born 1889, murdered in Auschwitz)
Max Lefebre (born 1898, murdered in Dachau on 21-12-1944)
Erika Lorenz (born 1916, murdered in Minsk)
Franziska Lorenz (born 1877, murdered in Minsk)

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