Stumbling Stones Gertigstraße 9

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Bertha Sommerfeld (born 1896, murdered in Ravensbrück on 12-6-1942)
Hertha Sommerfeld (born 1910, murdered in Minsk)
Max Sommerfeld (born 1909, overleefde Mauthausen)

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