Stumbling Stone Elisabethstraße 5

This memorial stone (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates
* Karoline Weinhandl, born 1917, deported 16 April 1941, Hartheim Castle, murdered 1941.

Karoline Weinhandl was the third of four children born into the Catholic family of Maria and Franz Weinhandl. Her mother died in 1932. Karoline was not able to support herself, and two years later, her father put her into care. He died in 1936. In 1939, the Nazis put her into the Salzburg State Asylum. On 16 April 1941, she and 67 other patients were deported to Hartheim Castle where all were murdered under the Nazis "T-4" euthanasia program.

"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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