Stumbling Stone Schweizer Gasse 2

This small brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Rena Reich, born 1927, deported 1942, Izbica, ??? [fate unknown].

Rena Reich, age 15, was probably deported with 207 other Kitzingen/Würzburg Jews (including her mother and older sister) on 24 March 1942 to the Izbica ghetto, a transit point for onward deportation to death camps. On that same day, 2,200 local Izbica Jews were deported from Izbica to their deaths at Belzec to make room for the incoming deportees from across Europe. Just where individuals sent to Izbica were murdered is extremely difficult to know.

Stolpersteine for her father Emil, mother Meta and sister Ruth are at Rosenstraße 26 in Kitzingen.

"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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