Stumbling Stones Schwetzinger Straße 1

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:

* Sally Jakob Adelsberger, born 1871, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, murdered 1943 Treblinka.
* Mathilde Adelsberger née Eppstein, born 1870, humiliated / deprived of her rights, dead 21 June 1941.

Jakob Salomon Adelsberger (known as Sally) was a cattle dealer, with many Hockenheim farmers as his customers. In November 1938, he was deported to Dachau, then released a day later due to his age. A year later, he was forced to sell his house. He moved to Mannheim to live with his nephew, Moritz. A Hockenheim resident, Mr. Haas on Hubertusstraße, illegally helped him to sell his animals. Then Sally and Mathilde moved to Stuttgart, where, at age 71, she died in 1941. He moved again, to Haigerloch and he remarried a year later. His second wife, Julie (born in 1880) and was deported with him to Theresienstadt and then killed in Treblinka in 1942.

Sally was the brother of Maier Adelsberger, who lived at Untere Haupstraße 3.

"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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