Stumbling Stones Coesfelder Straße 51

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Simon Jakobs, born 1896, deported 1942, Zamosc, murdered 1942.
* Joseph Jakobs, born 1929, deported 1942, Zamosc, murdered 1942.
* Julchen Jakobs née Weinberg, born 1905, deported 1942, Zamosc, murdered 1942.

Simon Jakobs and Julchen Weinberg were married and Joseph was their son. One source states that the family of five (including two more children – Max, born 1920 and Beate born 1935) was deported on the same day (27/28 April 1942) to Zamosc ghetto, with unknown dates and places of death. Another source shows Max and Beate as "relatives" rather than as "children." All 3 children were apparently placed in a Jewish orphanage in Paderborn. Children still there in the summer of 1942 were taken to a collection point before being deported. Another source states that 22 children had been taken and deported to Auschwitz in 1941. No information was found on when Joseph Jacobs was brought home by his parents before deportation with them.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small 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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