Thinking needle
With a thought Adel (proper spelling: thinking needle ) is in Erfurt locally on during the Nazi era were deported and murdered Jews from Erfurt recalls, similar to the pitfalls of Gunter Demnig . The Thinking Needle Project was developed by the Erfurt GeDenken 1933–1945 working group and, after a competition in 2007, decided in favor of Sophie Hollmann's design. Since then, nine thinking needles have been installed in the Erfurt city area.
List of thinking needles
No. | image | location | inscription | inauguration |
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1 | ![]() |
Road of Peace 1 ( map ) |
Dr. Hilde Spier , 1901–1942 deported on September 2, 1942, Auschwitz Carl Ludwig Spier, 1900–1945 death march to Buchenwald |
November 9, 2009 |
2 | ![]() |
Road of Peace 13 ( map ) |
Blondina Schüftan, b. Deported to Auschwitz on March 2, 1943, 1887 |
November 9, 2009 |
3 | ![]() |
Pushkinstrasse 16 ( map ) |
Leopold Stein, b. Deported to Auschwitz on March 2, 1943, 1880 |
November 9, 2009 |
4th | ![]() |
Domplatz 23 ( map ) |
Günther Beer, b. 1938 Deported on May 9, 1942, Belzyce ghetto |
November 9, 2009 |
5 | ![]() |
Bahnhofstrasse 40 ( map ) |
Dr. Ernst Ehrlich, 1874–1942 deported on September 19, 1942, Theresienstadt |
November 9, 2010 |
6th | ![]() |
Meister-Eckehart-Strasse 1 ( map ) |
Naemi Rosenblüth, 1936–1942, expelled on October 28, 1938, Poland |
November 9, 2011 |
7th | ![]() |
Johannesstrasse 98 ( map ) |
Max Cohn, b. 1899 April 1945, Buchenwald Helmut Cohn, b. 1925 December 1944, Auschwitz Rosemarie Cohn, b. 1928 January 1945, Bergen-Belsen |
January 27, 2012 |
8th | ![]() |
Anger 46 ( map ) |
Erich Dublon, 1890–1942 deported on August 11, 1942, Auschwitz Wilhelm Dublon, b. Deported to Auschwitz on January 15, 1944, 1889 |
November 9, 2012 |
9 | ![]() |
Lutherstrasse 5 ( map ) |
Herta Simon, b. 1921 Deported on May 9, 1942, Belzyce ghetto |
November 9, 2013 |
literature
- Kathrin S. Seidel, "Giving victims a name: The 6th Erfurt Thinking Pin reminds of Naemi Rosenblüth", in: Prima 2012 (= Yearbook of the Evangelical Ratsgymnasium Erfurt, 14), pp. 113–116.
Web links
Commons : Thinking Pin - collection of images, videos and audio files