Stumbling Stones Harburger Ring 8

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Elli Wichmann (born 1918, murdered in Kaufbeuren-Irsee on 14-3-1944)
Wilhelm Waltereit (born 1893, murdered in Sachsenhausen on 3-3-1941)
Erich Kromberg (born 1910, killed in Punishment-batallion 999 on 9-1-1945)

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