Stumbling Stones Marktplatz 8

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Max Held (born 1879, murdered in Auschwitz on 11-08-1942)
Johanna Held (born 1889, murdered in Auschwitz on 11-08-1942)
, persecuted or murdered by the Nazis.

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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck