Stumbling Stones Tucholskystraße 41

These memorials (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate the following people.

* Paula Altmann, born 1889, deported 1 November 1941, Lodz/Litzmannstadt, 1942 Chelmno/Kulmhof, murdered.
            Six months after her first deportation to Lodz, Paula Altmann was deported onward to the extermination camp at Chelmno and murdered on arrival. No other information was found about her family or her life.

* Ernestine Grün, born 1909, deported 25 January 1942, murdered in Riga.
* Rebecca Grün née Horowitz, born 1878, deported 25 January 1942, murdered in Riga.
            Rebecca Horowitz and Isidor Grün were both born in Romania. They married and had 3 daughters, including Ernestine, and 2 sons. One of the sons went to the US where he died in 1975. Information on Isidor Grün and their other children was not found.

* Frieda Lehmann née Loewenheim, born 1880, deported 2 April 1942, Warsaw Ghetto, murdered.
* Isidor Lehmann, born 1874, deported 2 April 1942, Warsaw Ghetto, murdered.
            Frieda Lehmann was born in Germany and Isidor Lehman in Poland. The train that left Berlin on 2 April carried them with over 1000 people. It arrived 3 days later in Warsaw. No other information was found about their lives and families.

* Therese Sack née Seeliger, born 1900, deported 2 March 1943, murdered in Auschwitz.
            Therese Sack was deported with approximately 1,500 others on Transport 32 from Berlin -- a train of closed cattle cars that arrived in Auschwitz the next day. Some men and women were selected for forced labor; over 800 others were sent directly to the gas chambers. Only 26 of the 1,500 on that train are known to have survived the war. No other information was found about Therese Sack’s life and family.

"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."

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Thom Quine (1)
• Photos: Paul David Doherty (2,3,4,5)
• Stolpersteine in Berlin
• Yad Vashem Deportation Database
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu