List of stumbling blocks in Osterath

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Rheinische Post November 25, 1978: Many of us died in Renate Wilkes-Valkyser's first night

The list of stumbling blocks in Osterath contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Osterath as part of the art project of the same name .

background

In December 2011 , 14 stumbling blocks for the Jewish citizens deported from Osterath were laid in Osterath , today a district of Meerbusch . About 25 stumbling blocks were planned. After the laying of the stumbling blocks, there were discussions and arguments about Hugo-Recken-Straße , which was named in honor of the mayor from 1934 to April 1945 .

List of stumbling blocks in Osterath

The columns in the table are self-explanatory. Combined addresses indicate that several stumbling blocks have been moved in one location. The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting takes place alphabetically according to the address.

image	address	Laying date	Person, inscription	Brief CV
	Kaarster Str. 8 (location)	December 11, 2011	Berta Gutmann, born in 1887, lived here . Deported in 1941. Murdered in Riga	Berta lived with her brother Julius and his wife Sabine in their parents' house at Kaarster Str. 8. Her father Moses Gutmann died in the spring of 1933 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Osterath. On the initiative of the local government under Mayor Osterath Hugo stretching the since 1867 used in Osterath was Jewish cemetery after Krefeld "reburied." In the Meerbusch history booklet this was named as an example of open racial persecution, "shows (the) Osterath reburial project that the (racist) propaganda had not failed there (in the Rhineland) too." Deportation to Riga on December 11, 1941
			Sabine Gutmann nee lived here . Herzberger Born 1901 Deported 1942 Liberated Theresienstadt survived	Sabine Gutmann was born on January 11, 1901 as the daughter of the horse dealer Herzberger. She worked in the Herz tie factory in Krefeld until 1938. Approx. In 1937 she met Julius Gutmann and moved to live with him in Osterath. They married in the summer of 1941. Sabine Gutmann later described her arrival there (in Theresienstadt) in her memoirs as follows: “When we arrived in Theresienstadt, I was beaten out of the wagon. With 35 women we had a room of 16 square meters. Many of our transports died the first night. 15 took their own lives. For eight months I was sick on a bed in the corner. One of my brothers and his wife were there too. They were soon taken to Auschwitz. I got poison. It was taken from me and I had to promise my husband that I would not kill myself. " Sabine Gutmann returned from Theresienstadt at the end of August 1945, she still weighed 86 pounds, she was on the local council for the SPD for 9 years, she left Osterath in the mid-1950s and died on December 27, 1986 in her home town of Krefeld. The Gutmann family's residential and commercial building at Kaarster Str. 8, built in Art Nouveau style in 1911, was not returned to them, nor was any compensation for the family home.
			Julius Gutmann, born in 1883, lived here . Deported 1942 Liberated survived	Julius Gutmann was born on February 9, 1883 in Osterath, went to school here and learned the butcher's trade from his father. After his father's death in 1933, he took over the family business and lived with his unmarried sister Berta in their parents' house. The father Moses Gutmann initially had a cattle trade. From 1911 he ran a butcher's shop in his newly built one House on Kaarster Strasse 8. During the First World War , Julius became a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross for actively participating in the fighting. He was wounded and later received a monthly pension as a recognized 50% war veteran. Picked up at his apartment on November 10, 1938 at around 9:30 a.m. and held in protective custody for one day at the Osterath mayor's office. On the following night, on the night of November 10th to 11th, in the early hours of the morning between 3 and 4 a.m., SA men from outside arrested him and brought him to Anrath. There he was held in the wing of the Willich-Anrath prison until November 30, 1938. After his imprisonment, Julius Gutmann was banned from working. Julius Gutmann died on March 14, 1948 at the age of 65 in the Dominikus Hospital in Düsseldorf-Heerdt.
	Kaarster Str. 14 (location)	December 11, 2011	Gustav Kiefer, born in 1887, lived here . Deported in 1941. Murdered in Riga	Deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
			Franziska Kiefer nee lived here . Levy Born in 1881 Deported in 1941 Murdered in Riga	Deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
			Karola Lucas nee lived here . Kiefer born in 1909. Deported in 1941. Murdered in Riga	The Lucas family lived at Hoterheideweg 44, they were then forced into the »Judenhaus« at Kaarster Str. Deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
			Justin Lucas, born in 1901, lived here . Escape 1941 Kenya survived
			Max Lucas, born in 1900, lived here . Escape 1941 Kenya survived
			Here lived Ruth Lucas born Kiefer born in 1912. Deported in 1941. Murdered in Riga	Deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
			Dan Lucas, born in 1939, lived here . Deported. 1941 Murdered in Riga	Dan Lucas' birth certificate shows that his mother gave birth to him at home, in the »Judenhaus« Kaarster Str. 14, without the help of a doctor or midwife. Deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
	Meerbuscher Str. 30 (location)	December 11, 2011	Hilde Katz nee lived here . Kiefer Age unknown Escape 1941 Brazil survived
			Jacob Kiefer, born in 1872, lived here . Humiliated / disenfranchised death 1941
			Selma Kiefer, born in 1881, lived here . Deported in 1941. Murdered in Riga	Deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
	Krefelder Str. 11 (location)	December 11, 2011	Here lived Paul Cervelli born in 1906 disbarment Humiliated / Disenfranchised survived

Gaps in the stumbling blocks

For some victims, no stumbling blocks could (yet) be laid:

• Bernhard Abrahams, deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
• Hedwig Davids, b. Rives, deported to Theresienstadt on July 27, 1942
• Selma Davids, b. Kiefer, deported to Theresienstadt on July 27, 1942
• Valentin Davids, deported to Theresienstadt on July 27, 1942
• Emily Ephraim, b. Salomon, deported to Litzmannstadt on October 27, 1941
• Alice Fellheimer, b. Kiefer, deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
• Ida Kiefer, deported to Izbica on April 24, 1942
• Emmi Gutmann, b. David, deported to Theresienstadt on July 27, 1942 and to Auschwitz on October 16, 1944
• Karl Gutmann, deported to Theresienstadt on July 27, 1942 and to Auschwitz on October 16, 1944
• Marta Königsthal, deported to Riga on December 11, 1941
• Klara Salmon, born Kiefer, deported to Theresienstadt on July 25, 1942 and to Treblinka on September 26, 1942
• Alfred Levy, deported to Riga on December 11, 1941

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Osterath  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the artist Gunter Demnig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Ruth: Memorials in the ground Rheinische Post, 12. December 2011. The artist Gunter Demnig laid a total of 14 "stumbling blocks" in Osterath. They are supposed to remember citizens of the Jewish faith - there were 26 in total - who were deported to concentration camps during the Nazi era. Memorials in the ground
2. ↑ 14. Meerbuscher history booklet, Günter Janß: “The Osterather Judenfriedhof and the history of the Jewish community”, page 60: “New major actions did not begin again until the spring of 1935. They began in Berlin and were soon felt throughout the empire. Even if it is correct that the new aggression against the Jews in the Rhineland started with some delay, the Osterath reburial project shows that the propaganda had not failed to have an effect there too and that the National Socialist idea of ​​'racial segregation' was one of the firmly anchored ideas in had become the heads of very many people. "
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} In the Salliter report ( Memento des original from March 7, 2014 on the Internet) you can read about the horrific conditions of this "deportation" to Riga, which began in Osterath in the middle of winter on an open truck Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the police officer Paul Salitter but also in the reports ( memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the few survivors like Hilde Sherman .  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 16. Meerbusch history booklet 1999, Marie-Sophie Aust: “A Jewish fellow citizen from Osterath: Julius Gutmann and his family”, pages 50–62
5. ^ Renate-Wilkes-Valkyser: Rheinische Post November 25, 1978: Sabine Gutmann survived three years of concentration camps. "Many of us died on the first night". Now the old Jew is threatened with homelessness
6. ↑ Norbert Stirken, Rheinische Post, September 21, 2011, stumbling blocks generate skepticism