List of stumbling blocks in Eutin

The stumbling blocks for Alice and Jenny Nathan

The list of the stumbling blocks in Eutin results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in Eutin on. 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 only relocation so far took place on May 20, 2019.

History of the Jews of Eutin

According to the Lübecker Nachrichten , Eutin was a Nazi stronghold from the 1920s to the 1940s.

In 1936 there were hardly any Jews left in the city, two elderly women, two baptized Jews and two so-called mixed race. One of the two women, Alice Nathan, fled, the other died. When the Gestapo received an order on January 22, 1945 to list all Jews who were fit for work, Eutin received a succinct notification of illness from the two remaining "half-breeds". The Senior Medical Council diagnosed that Eduard Driels could not be sent to “closed work” because of “stiffening of the right shoulder” and Julius Seckels because of “severe asthma”. Not without forgetting the hint that Seckels was himself a "participant in the World War". The same doctor is said to have saved the lives of some imprisoned Social Democrats. It is not known why the Gestapo was satisfied with the sick leave.

Stumbling blocks in Eutin

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED ALICE NATHAN GEB. CARO JG. 1871 ESCAPE 1939 FRANCE SURVIVED HIDDEN	Albert-Mahlstedt-Strasse 20 (formerly Auguststrasse)	Alice Nathan , nee Caro, was born in Paris in 1871. She married into the Nathan family, who had come to Eutin from Lübeck-Moisling in 1801. She had at least one son and one daughter. After Hitler came to power, she was the last member of the respected and wealthy Eutin family, along with her sister-in-law Jenny Nathan. Worn down by the harassment and abuse by the National Socialists, she fled to France to live with her son in 1939. She was able to survive the Nazi regime in hiding. Sister-in-law Jenny died hypothermic and malnourished as a result of pneumonia in December 1940 in Eutin. Nicola Weil, Alice Nathan's great-granddaughter, was present for the transfer; she had come from England specially. The lawyer, who lives near Windsor , was delighted and touched by the memory of her ancestor and thanked her for the warm welcome. However, she also warned: "The discussion about the past must never end."
	JENNY NATHAN JG LIVED HERE . 1856 HUMILIATED / DISRUGGED DEAD December 29, 1940 EUTIN HOSPITAL	Albert-Mahlstedt-Strasse 20 (formerly Auguststrasse)	Jenny Nathan was born in Eutin in 1856. Her father was NN Nathan (1813-1894), doctor and member of the state parliament, the most prominent member of the Nathan family, who had come to Eutin in 1801 from Lübeck-Moisling. She remained single and was the last member of the respected and wealthy Eutin family after Hitler came to power - alongside her sister-in-law Alice Nathan, née Caro. Worn down by the harassment and abuse by the National Socialists, the sister-in-law fled to France to live with her son in 1939. Jenny Nathan was left alone. She was chronically malnourished and developed pneumonia. She was found unconscious in her home and taken to the hospital. Jenny Nathan died on December 29, 1940.
	HERE LIVED CARL ULLRICH JG. 1889 IN RESISTANCE / SPD ARRIVED AUG. 1944 'AKTION GITTER' NEWENGAMME TOT 31.10.1944 CIRCUMSTANCES NEVER EXPLAINED	Klaus-Groth-Strasse 9	Carl Ullrich was born in 1889. He was a trained bricklayer who could work his way up to foreman, trade unionist, member of the SPD and from 1930 a member of the Eutin city council. Several times he got into physical confrontations with the local SA, and he was repeatedly beaten to hospital conditions. After the National Socialists came to power in January 1933, he was monitored, but kept his job in Kiel. After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, he was arrested - as part of the grating action - and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp . He died suddenly and unexpectedly on October 31, 1944, allegedly of pneumonia. However, fellow inmates could not determine a serious illness, as the historian Lawrence D. Stokes found. At that time, an SS man from Eutin-Neudorf is said to have murdered several inmates of the Neuengamme concentration camp using fuel syringes. Carl Ullrich could have been one of his victims.

laying

Two lectures were given in Eutin, the first on May 9, 2019 by Katja Demnig, the second on May 19, 2019 by Gunter Demnig. The next day the artist laid the stumbling blocks of Eutin. Around 120 citizens of Eutin took part in the celebrations.

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Eutin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Lübecker Nachrichten : Artist sets three stumbling blocks in Eutin , May 21, 2019
2. ↑ Ostholsteiner Anzeiger : Did a doctor save the Eutin Jews? , Article by Constanze Emde, January 26, 2015
3. ↑ Ostholsteiner Anzeiger: Stumbling blocks became a school topic , accessed on May 31, 2020

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