JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. STOLPERSTEINE.

KAROLINA LÖBL - BAMBERG/GERMANY

Sunday, Tishrei 14, 5779. September 23,  2018.

Shalom! World.

They're not very large, about 15cm square. But there are tens of thousands of them all over Germany and Europe, in cities, towns and villages large and small. What are they? Stolpersteine - literally "stumbling stones" - are bronze plaques cemented into the sidewalk outside the homes of Jews deported during the Third Reich. Each tells the simple story of what happened to a single individual - like this one in Bamberg a memorial to a German Jew born in 1861, Karolina Lobl, who was deported in 1942 first to Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) and then to Treblinka where was killed in 1942.
    
EUGENIO COEN SACERDOTI AND AMALIA DINA COEN SACERDOTI -  PADOVA/ITALY

RUZENA BERGMANNOVÁ, BEILA BERGMANNOVÁ AND ALOIS BERGMANN. PRAHA/CZECH REPUBLIC
EDUARD BÖHN AND HERMÍNA BÖHMOVÁ. PRAHA/CZECH REPUBLIC

HERMAN ABLLES, EVA ABELESOVÁ AND ZDENKA ABELESOVÁ.
PRAHA/CZECH REPUBLIC
LORE WINTERNITZOVÁ AND STEPÁN MICHAEL WINTERNITZ.
PRAHA/CZECH REPUBLIC
GIDEON KLEIN AND ILANA KLEINOVÁ. PRAHA/CZECH REPUBLIC
Stolpersteine  are the brainchild of Cologne based artist Gunter Demnig who began the Project in 1997, citing the Talmud's declaration that "a person is only forgotten when his or her name is forgotten." Each plaque begins with the words: "Here lived ..." Demnig himself produces each Stolpersteine and personally oversees each installation. While relatives of  victims can commission Stolpersteine, most are funded by the municipality where the plaqque is to be placed.

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.

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