List of stumbling blocks in Menorca

Stumbling blocks in Ciutadella de Menorca

The list of stumbling blocks on Menorca contains the stumbling blocks on the Spanish island of Menorca , part of the Balearic Islands , which were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence.

The first relocations in Spain took place on April 9, 2015 in Navàs and El Palà de Torroella , in Menorca on December 19, 2018. The Catalan translation of the term stumbling blocks is: pedres que fan ensopegar . In Spanish they are called piedras de la memoria (memorial stones ).

Ciutadella de Menorca

In Ciutadella de Menorca , Gunter Demnig laid the following stumbling blocks. The initiative for the relocations came from the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT).

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	JOSEP CAULES PONS LIVED HERE BORN 1911 EXILE 1939 DEPORTED 1941 MAUTHAUSEN MURDERED 9.1.1942 GUSEN	Carrer de Sant Miquel, 21	Josep Caules Pons was born on March 16, 1911. After Menorca was surrendered to Franco , he went into exile in southern France in 1939. He was captured by German armed forces and first interned in Stalag XI B in Fallingbostel . There he was given prisoner number 87234. On January 27, 1941, he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he was given prisoner number 6288. Here he had to do forced labor in the quarry . On April 8, 1941, he was transferred to the Gusen satellite camp. There he received the prisoner number 12,248. Josep Caules Pons was murdered here on January 9, 1942 by the Nazi regime.
	MANUEL MARQUÉS PONS LIVED HERE BORN 1908 EXILE 1939 DEPORTED 1941 MAUTHAUSEN GUSEN MURDERED 25.9.1941 HARTHEIM CASTLE	Carrer de sa Carnisseria, 27	Manuel Marquès Pons was born on February 8, 1908. After Menorca was surrendered to Franco, he went into exile in southern France in 1939. He was captured by German armed forces and first interned in Stalag XI B in Fallingbostel . There he was given prisoner number 87238. On January 27, 1941, he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he was given prisoner number 6423 and had to do forced labor in the quarry. On April 8, 1941, he was transferred to the Gusen satellite camp. There he was given the prisoner number 12,090. He was finally transferred to Hartheim . Manuel Marquès Pons was murdered here on September 25, 1941 by the Nazi regime.
	IGNASI MOLL CAYMARI LIVED HERE BORN 1914 EXILE 1939 DEPORTED 1940 MAUTHAUSEN MURDERED October 5, 1941 GUSEN	Carrer de sa Carnisseria, 3	Ignasi Moll Caymaris was born on November 20, 1914. After Menorca was surrendered to Franco, he went into exile in southern France in 1939. In 1940 he was arrested by the German armed forces and first interned in the Stalag IB von Hohenstein . On August 9, 1940, he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he was given prisoner number 3661. On January 24, 1941, he was transferred to the Gusen satellite camp. There he was given the prisoner number 9,456. Ignasi Moll Caymaris was murdered here on October 5, 1941 by the Nazi regime.

In Ciutadella there has also been a memorial plaque for the three victims of the Nazi regime since 2009. This was smeared by vandals in September 2018.

Laying date

The stumbling blocks in Ciutadella de Menorca were laid on December 19, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Ciutadella  - Collection of Images

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MENORCA, Es Diari: Homenaje en Ciutadella a las víctimas menorquinas de Mauthausen , accessed on May 13, 2019 (with a photo on which Gunter Demnig can also be seen)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} GentXCiutadella: GxC recolza la instal·lació dels Stolperstein, iniciativa impulsada per la CGT en homenatge a les tres víctimes ciutadellenques dels camps d'extermini nazis , accessed on May 13, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} Menorca info: Las piedras de la memoria , accessed on May 15, 2019
4. ↑ CAULES PONS, José in the database of Spanish Nazi victims of the Ministerio de Cultura , accessed on May 13, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} eliris.cat: Pedres de la memòria pels ciutadellencs assassinats al camps d'extermini nazis , accessed on May 13, 2019
6. ↑ MARQUÉS PONS, Manuel in the database of Spanish Nazi victims of the Ministerio de Cultura , accessed on May 15, 2019
7. ↑ MOLL CAYMARIS, Ignacio in the database of Spanish Nazi victims of the Ministerio de Cultura , accessed on January 2, 2019
8. ↑ MENORCA, Es Diari: Vandalismo sobre la placa de los menorquines fallecidos en los campos nazi , accessed on May 15, 2019
9. ↑ La Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria: 16 menorquines fallecieron en campos de concentración nazis , accessed on May 13, 2019

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