Stumbling Stone Beisen 57d

This memorial stone (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorates:
* Auguste Mielke, née Knorr, born 1890, arrested 1936, concentration camp Moringen, concentration camp Lichtenburg, murdered 1942.

Stolperstein sponsored by Glück-Auf-Schule.

Moringen became a small women’s camp in October 1933 with 128 prisoners. By 1937, there were 446, half of whom were Jehova’s Witnesses. After a decision to close the camp, prisoners were moved, starting in December 1937, to the Lichtenburg camp. The Lichtenburg camp itself was closed in May 1939 when the Ravensbrück camp for women was opened and the Lictenburg prisoners were moved there. It’s not known whether Auguste Mielke was sent to Ravensbrück or where she was murdered.

The small brass plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

In many other German cities 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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