List of stumbling blocks in Ratzeburg

Stumbling block for Aenne Ratzeburg in front of her former home

The list of stumbling blocks in Ratzeburg contains the stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in the Schleswig-Holstein city of Ratzeburg . 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 and so far only relocation in Ratzeburg took place on August 12, 2013.

List of stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is alphabetical according to the victim's family name. The laying data can be found in a separate paragraph below the list.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED AENNE RAAZ GEB. BORCHARDT JG. 1891 BEFORE DEPORTATION ESCAPE TO DEATH 02/18/1945	Lübecker Strasse 19	Aenne Raaz , b. Borchardt was born on June 28, 1891 in Schönebeck on the Elbe . She came from a Jewish family. She married the lawyer Ewald Raaz on August 2, 1914 in Berlin-Schöneberg . In 1936 the couple moved from Berlin to Ratzeburg in the hope of an undisturbed life. They lived at Lübecker Straße 19. Ingrid Philipp, a neighbor, described Aenne Raaz as "an extremely educated, nice and lovable woman". She committed suicide with poison after learning of her impending deportation. She died on February 18, 1945, when Auschwitz had already been liberated. After the fall of the Nazi regime, her husband was appointed the district's first district administrator by the British occupiers . He died in 1958.

laying

On February 18, 2013, the anniversary of Aenne Raaz's death, class 10d of the Lauenburg School of Academics held a memorial ceremony in the school's auditorium. Schoolchildren and the city archivist Christian Lopau had researched the life and death of the Jewish woman who committed suicide shortly before the fall of the Nazi regime. There is a bust of Aenne Raaz that was made available by her granddaughter for the event.

The only stumbling block in Ratzeburg to date was laid by Gunter Demnig personally on August 12, 2013. Again, students and teachers from the Lauenburg scholars were present. In his speech, Mayor Rainer Voss praised the fact that many people from Ratzeburg “are still touched by this dark event in the city's history and have not forgotten Aenne Raaz”. Mayor Ottfried Feussner also attended the ceremony.

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Ratzeburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project
• Monuments in Ratzeburg that are reminiscent of war and tyranny

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inselstadt Ratzeburg: A stumbling block for Aenne Raaz , August 5, 2013
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jens Burmester: LG students remember the Jew Aenne Raaz , Lübecker Nachrichten , February 18, 2013
3. ↑ LN Online: “A Stumbling with Head and Heart” , accessed December 20, 2019
4. ^ Lübecker Nachrichten : “Stolperstein” for Aenne Raaz in Ratzeburg , August 10, 2013
5. ↑ On the person of the city archivist: Der Rückblicker , daily newspaper (Berlin), July 15, 2014

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