Stumbling Stones Friedleinsgasse 2

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
-Heinz-Josef HAMMEL (b. 1927, deported and murdered 1942 in Izbica)
-Robert HAMMEL (b. 1931, deported and murdered 1942 in Izbica)
-Leo HAMMEL (b. 1892, deportation 1938 Dachau – Sachsenkausen – Buchenwald, murdered 1942 in Bernburg institution)
-Hilda HAMMEL (born Fleischmann 1897, deportation Gurs 1940, murdered in Auschwitz 1942)

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 and villages, 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.

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