Stumbling Stones Berliner Straße 22

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Arnold Hess (born 1900, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
Betty Goldschmidt (born 1878, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
Lina Karoline Floersheim (born 1881, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
Rosa Goldschmidt (born 1889, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942)
Lydia Hess (born 1911, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
Siegbert Hess (born 1932, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
Julius Hess (born 1934, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
Fritz Hess (born 1937, murdered in Kowno on 25-11-1941)
, 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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