Stumbling Stones Papenhuder Straße 42

These small, brass, memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Wilhelm Baum, born 1892, deported 1942, Auschwitz, murdered.
* Hedwig Bernhardine Baum née Hirschfeld, born 1904, deported 1942, Auschwitz, murdered.
* Hannelore Baum, born 1935, deported 1942, Auschwitz, murdered.

Wilhelm Baum grew up in Bernkastel-Kues. He and Hedwig Hirschfeld married in 1934.
Hannelore Baum was born in 1935, and by 1938, her parents had decided to leave Germany using funds from the planned sale of her father’s shoe store. However, the Nazis "ayranized" the store. With borrowed funds, the family applied for and received all emigration documents except for the Australiam entry permit. They changed Hamburg locations several times and finally were all three deported on 11 July 1942 to Auschwitz and murdered there.

A stolperstein was also laid for Hannelore at the location from which she and her parents were deported – Durchschnitt 8 in Hamburg (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum).

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine in Hamburg.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: NordNordWest
• Stolpersteine in Hamburg: Wilhelm Baum
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Stolpersteine.eu