Stumbling blocks in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

Stumbling blocks in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

In Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, eight more stumbling blocks will soon be laid to remind of people who were persecuted by the National Socialists. These commemorative stones are laid on the last voluntary place of residence of the victims. Among other things, a stumbling block is laid at Möckernstraße 65 to memory of Therese Heymann. Therese Heymann, born in Prague in 1873, was a widowed mother of five children who worked as a nurse. It was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942, where she died in 1943. Two of their children survived the persecution.

A stumbling block for Israel Gran is laid at Wassertorstraße 22. Gran was born in 1910 and became the victim of persecution by the National Socialists. He was murdered in a concentration camp in 1945. A stumbling block for Regina Rebeka Schenk is laid at Görlitzer Straße 67. She survived the deportation to Theresienstadt and returned to Berlin, but died in 1949.

In Warschauer Straße 8, two stumbling blocks for Gertrud and Hugo Silber dress are laid. The couple was deported to the Minsk ghetto in 1941 and murdered at an unknown time. Louis, Ida and Artur Schallamach are remembered at Jessnerstrasse 11. Louis and Ida were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered there while their son Artur was murdered in Auschwitz.

The laying of the stumbling blocks has been financed by the district office since 2017 when they are initiated by relatives or descendants of the victims. These symbolic stones in the cityscape are reminiscent of the dark past and suffering of people who were innocently persecuted by the National Socialist regime.

Source: www.berlin.de