Stumbling Stones Kirchstraße 22

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

* Gustav Landau, born 1885, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.
* Henriette Landau, née Meyer, born 1890, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.
* Ilse Landau, born 1921, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.

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

In many other cities and villages, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, 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