Stumbling Stones Grüwwel 1

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:

* Oskar Wolff, born 1876, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.
* Betti Wolff, née Weinberg, born 1885, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.
* Otto Wolff, born 1909, deported, murdered.
* Erich Wolff, born 1912, deported, Auschwitz, 4 February 1944.

Oskar Wolff and Bertha (Betti) Weinberg were married and had 2 sons (Otto and Erich, above) and one daughter (Mathilde Abers).

In 1936, Otto and Erich Wolff escaped to Amsterdam. Otto worked as a chemist, Erich as a sales representative. In 1939, they helped their sister Mathilde and her husband to escape to England.

Otto married Hildegard Sommer in January 1942. A year later, the couple was arrested. Their daughter Gisela was born in Westerbork. All three were then deported to Theresienstat and then finally to Auschwitz where Hildegard and Gisela were killed in October 1944 and Otto some time later.

Erich was deported in 1942. One source says that his date of death in Auschwitz is one of only 4 Jewish Südlohners whose dates of death during the Shoah have been clearly determined.

"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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