Stumbling Stones Seidelstraße 23

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or Stumbling Stones), commemorate:

HANS COPPI, (born 1916, active in the Resistance, arrested 12-9-1942, executed 22-12-1942 Plötzensee)
HILDE COPPI-RAKI, (born 1909, active in the resistance, arrested 12-9-1942, executed 5-8-1943 Plötzensee.

Hans and Hilde Coppi, were members of the resistance group ‘Die Rote Kapelle’ and were sentenced to death after their arrest. At the time of her death sentence, Hilde was expecting her first child, which was born in prison on 27-11-1942. On 5-8-1943, she too was guillotined to death in Plötzensee prison.

‘Stolpersteine’ is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (trip stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque bears the victim's name, date of birth and their fate. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: ‘A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.’

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