Stumbling Stones Merkelsgasse 5

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Alfred Wagner, born 1889, before deportation killed himself 20 February 1941.
* Mathilde Wagner née Fried, born 1890, deported 1942, murdered in Izbica.
* Ilse Wagner, born 1914, deported 1942, murdered in Izbica.

Alfred Wagner killed himself rather than be deported in 1941. A year later, his wife and daughter were taken on the only deportation from Nürnberg to Izbica -- on 24 March 1942. Of the 426 Nürnberg residents taken on that day, none survived. On that same day in Izbica, in order to make some room for incoming deportees, many persons already in Izbica were deported to the nearby extermination camp in Belzec and murdered.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm 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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