Stumbling Stone Camerariusstraße 6

This memorial stone (so called Stolperstein or stumbling block) commemorates:

* Emma Kraft, born 1927, deported 29 November 1941, Riga, murdered.

Little is known for certain about teenager Emma Kraft. Although all sources are consistent that Emma was born in Nürnberg and lived there before the war, different sources give different years of birth (1924, 1927, 1929), years of death (1941, 1943) and different locations where she was killed (Stutthof, Riga). The deportation date fits with Train Da 32 from Nürnberg to Riga. Geni.com, without dates, suggests that her brother Heinrich Ernst, her father Hermann and mother Martha all died in the Holocaust, as does testimony to Yad Vashem by cousins who survived.

"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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