Stumbling Stones Luisenstraße 120

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

* Leopold Jakobi, born 1888, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Rosalie Jakobi née Schwarz, born 1886, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Margot Jakobi, born 1917, left hometown, 1938 Köln, deported 1941 Lodz, murdered 28 June 1944, Chelmno.
* Wolfgang Jakobi, born 1921, left hometown, 1938 Köln, deported 1941 Lodz, slave labor in Posen, dead 23 February 1943.

Leopold Jakobi married Cäcilie Finkenstein and they had 3 children – Margot (b. 1917), Ruth (b. 1919), and Wolfgang (b. 1921). After Cäcilie died, Leopold Jakobi married Rosalie Schwarz. From 1932-38 he was a provisions agent and a trader in sausages. They lived in a small house at Luisenstraße 120. Leopold and Rosalie put Margot and Wolfgang in a orphanage; Ruth continued to live with the parents. After the 10 November 1938 Pogromnacht, Leopold was taken to Dachau, from which he was released in January 1939. Margot and Wolfgang fled to Cologne, where he prepared for emigration to Palestine. But in 1941, they were deported separately to the Lodz Ghetto: Margot on 22 October and Wolfgang 8 days later. He was killed in February 1943 in a labor camp in Poznan /Posen and she in June 1944 in Chelmno.

Leopold and Rosalie were deported on 11 December 1941 to the Riga Ghetto and are considered lost, presumed dead. Daughter Ruth Jakobi presumably 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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Jens-Erik Janke
• Stolpersteine für Dinslaken
• Stolpersteine.eu