Cobblestone memorials ('Stolpersteine')
It's not just the dark days that have been getting me down (see my last posting). The war in Ukraine, the mass shootings in my own country (USA) are hard to bear. A few days ago somebody even gunned down gay and trans people at a club in Colorado. Just because they are gay or trans, apparently. Russia's Putin may have a similar attitude. Yet his Army is bombing and killing anybody and everybody just because they happen to be Ukrainian. All of this reminds me of the bleak history of human persecution, including what took place in the country that is now my home.
These small stones topped with brass (called stumbling stones) pay tribute to the victims of Nazi persecution and terror here in the city of Bamberg. There are 136 of them, all placed on the sidewalk in front of the homes where the victims lived as part of an art project directed by Gunter Demnig since 2004. 70,000 similar stones can be seen in many locations throughout Germany and Europe. The five stones here on Keßlerstraße contain these inscriptions in German:
Here lived
Isodor Forchheimer, born 1887, imprisoned at Dachau 1938, deported to Riga 1941, murdered.
Johanna Forchheimer, born Michels 1888, deported to Riga 1941, murdered.
Cantor Julius Schapiro, born 1895, arrested, in Buchenwald concentration camp, deceased 1945.
Ruth Schapiro, born 1925, deported to the east 1941, declared to be dead.
Elenore Schapiro, born Hahn 1896, deported to the east 1941, declared to be dead.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein , and (in German) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Bamberg and www.stolpersteine-bamberg.de/ I've re-edited this image using the Fuji Monochrome +R filter in Lightroom 6.14. [FUJI1179_lr_2000]
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Cobblestone memorials ('Stolpersteine')
It's not just the dark days that have been getting me down (see my last posting). The war in Ukraine, the mass shootings in my own country (USA) are hard to bear. A few days ago somebody even gunned down gay and trans people at a club in Colorado. Just because they are gay or trans, apparently. Russia's Putin may have a similar attitude. Yet his Army is bombing and killing anybody and everybody just because they happen to be Ukrainian. All of this reminds me of the bleak history of human persecution, including what took place in the country that is now my home.
These small stones topped with brass (called stumbling stones) pay tribute to the victims of Nazi persecution and terror here in the city of Bamberg. There are 136 of them, all placed on the sidewalk in front of the homes where the victims lived as part of an art project directed by Gunter Demnig since 2004. 70,000 similar stones can be seen in many locations throughout Germany and Europe. The five stones here on Keßlerstraße contain these inscriptions in German:
Here lived
Isodor Forchheimer, born 1887, imprisoned at Dachau 1938, deported to Riga 1941, murdered.
Johanna Forchheimer, born Michels 1888, deported to Riga 1941, murdered.
Cantor Julius Schapiro, born 1895, arrested, in Buchenwald concentration camp, deceased 1945.
Ruth Schapiro, born 1925, deported to the east 1941, declared to be dead.
Elenore Schapiro, born Hahn 1896, deported to the east 1941, declared to be dead.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein , and (in German) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Bamberg and www.stolpersteine-bamberg.de/ I've re-edited this image using the Fuji Monochrome +R filter in Lightroom 6.14. [FUJI1179_lr_2000]
Thank you all for the clicks, comments & faves.