Stumbling Stones Kirchstraße 12

These small brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Dr. Julius Wolff, born 1879, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.
* Ilse Wolff, née Levy, born 1912, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.

Julius Wolff, a decorated war veteran, was a veternarian (Tierarzt) and a meat inspector. He and his much younger wife Ilse Levy had no children. Apparently, he is said to have refused, as a former officer, to allow his wife to go alone in deportation. Information on his death is lost. Sources indicate that Ilse was deported together with Julius, but that she was transferred without him out of the Riga ghetto to Stutthof, where she was reportedly killed.

"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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