Stumbling Stones Klümper Straße 4

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Nathan Elkan, born 1888, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, murdered 1944 in Auschwitz.
* Lenchen Rosenbaum, born 1914, deported 1941, Riga, murdered 1944 in Stutthof.

Lenchen Rosenbaum was Nathan Elkan’s step-daughter. She and Amalie ‘Malchen’ Elkan (see Weseler Straße 12) were the first Raesfeld citizens to be taken by the Nazis. They were deported in 1941 to Riga and in 1944 they were murdered in Stutthof Concentration Camp.

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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