Stolpersteine

Memorial Stones in Pavements

Look out for these brass plaques set in stone, called ‚Stolpersteine‘. ‚Stolpersteine‘ literally translates as ‚stumbling blocks‘. The stones were created as memorial tablets to commemorate the victims of the Nazi era. The plaques are embedded into the pavements in front of the victim’s last place of residence.

Since then, ‚Stolpersteine‘ have been placed in over 700 areas around Germany and across Europe – including here in Celle.

The ‚Stolpersteine‘ you see clearly defined in the pictures, can be found in front of the following houses:

• Markt 2 - Paula Ems (birth name Rosenthal), born 1867, died 12.03.1944 in Theresienstadt
• Markt 2 - Leonie Hirschfeld (birth name Ems) born 1896, disappeared in Auschwitz
• Markt 6 - Emilie Erbse (birth name Cussel), born 1877, deported 1941, murdered in Riga
• Markt 6 - Gretchen Zerkowski (birth name Cussel) born 1887, deported 1942, died in Piaski           
• Market 6 -Alfred Cussel, born 1881,  humiliated and stripped of all human rights, died 14.04.1941