Stumbling Stones Borkener Straße 4

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Emma Elkan, née Rosenbaum, born 1876, deported 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered 23 September 1942 Treblinka.
* Moses 'Emanuel' Elkan, born 1868, deported 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered 23 September 1942 Treblinka.

Emanuel and Emma Elkan were husband and wife.

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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Jens-Erik Janke