List of stumbling blocks in Velten

Stumbling blocks in Velten

The list of stumbling blocks in Velten contains the stumbling blocks that were laid in the city of Velten . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . The Stolpersteine ​​were designed by the artist Gunter Demnig and are usually laid by him himself.

The stumbling blocks are usually in front of the last self-chosen place of residence of the victim.

Stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Name, life
	ERNA GERSINSKI GEB. LIVED HERE YOUNG JG. 1896 IN THE RESISTANCE / KPD 'PROTECTION STICK' 1933 ORANIENBURG MISSHANDELTy SURVIVE	Wilhelmstrasse 13	Erna Gersinski was born as Erna Jung on March 12, 1896 in Velten. After attending primary school, she worked as a domestic help and locksmith. She joined the German Metal Workers' Association (DMV) and the USPD and in 1920 switched to the KPD . She married Gustav Gersinski and was an elected member of the local council. Since 1933, she has been arrested several times for her political activities and imprisoned in concentration camps, where she also suffered abuse. After her liberation after the end of the war, she became a member of the SED and elected to the city council. She died on January 22, 1964 in Hennigsdorf .
	GUSTAV GERSINSKI JG LIVED HERE . 1893 IN THE RESISTANCE / KPD SINCE MAY 1933 IN SEVERAL KZ'S RELEASED END 1934 ARRIVED AUG 1944 'AKTION GITTER' BERGEN-BELSEN MURDERED APRIL 1945	Wilhelmstrasse 13	Gustav Gersinski was born on May 15, 1893 in Groß Brausen near Susz in West Prussia . In Velten he was married to Erna Gersinski and was politically organized as a founding member of the KPD local group Velten. In 1924 he was elected to the local council and in 1926 as chairman of the KPD parliamentary group in the Osthavelland district council. Because of his political activities he was arrested in the Sonnenburg concentration camp from 1933 and was initially released again in 1934. In 1944 he was arrested again and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He died in April 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . The POS Gustav Gersinski (today Barbara-Zürner-Oberschule ), the Gustav-Gersinski-Park (Viktoriapark) and the Gustav-Gersinski-Straße (Viktoriastraße) in Velten were named after Gustav Gersinski in the GDR period until the beginning of the 1990s . A memorial stone for him in Viktoriapark was entered in the 2013 list of monuments, the memorial plaque is said to be stored in the town hall.
	DR. ALFRED LEHMANN JG LIVED AND WORKED HERE . 1887 WORK BAN 1933 HUMILIATED / DISRUSTED DEAD 30.9.1937	74 Broad Street	Alfred Lehmann was born in 1878. He was a doctor and married to Margarethe Lehmann. The couple had two children: Herbert and Lili. Despite being banned from working in 1933, he continued to treat patients in secret. Alfred Lehmann died in Berlin on September 30, 1937. His wife and children were able to emigrate to England.
	HERBERT LEHMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1917 ESCAPE 1934 ENGLAND SCOTLAND	74 Broad Street	Herbert Lehmann was born in 1917. He was the son of Alfred and Margarethe Lehmann and brother of Lili Lehmann. Herbert Lehmann emigrated to England and finally to Scotland. He studied. In 1939 he managed to bring his mother and sister to England, his father had died in 1937.
	LILI LEHMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1920 ESCAPE 1939 SCOTLAND	74 Broad Street	Lili Lehmann was born in 1920. Her parents were Alfred Lehmann and Margarethe Lehmann. Her father died in Berlin in 1937. Lili Lehmann emigrated to England in 1939 with the help of her brother and her mother.
	MARGARETHE LEHMANN GEB. LIVED HERE STEIN JG. 1883 ESCAPE 1939 SCOTLAND	74 Broad Street	Margarethe Lehmann , nee Stein, was born in 1883. She was married to Alfred Lehmann and the couple had two children: Herbert and Lili. Her husband died in 1937. Margarethe Lehmann and her daughter emigrated to England in 1939 with the help of their son
	HERE LIVED RICHARD UNGER MAN JG. 1908 IM WIDERSTAND / ADGB / RFB 'SCHUTZHAFT' 1933 VELTENER TOWN HALL MEISSNERSHOF SHOT WITH EXTREMELY TORTURE APRIL 1933 SUBMERGED IN THE HAVEL	Wilhelmstrasse 19	Richard Ungermann was born on July 9, 1908. He worked as a furnace worker in the Hennigsdorf steelworks and was a member of the KPD. On May 14, 1933, he was arrested with other resistance fighters and taken to the Meisnerhof concentration camp, where he was shot on May 16, 1933 and then sewn into a sack and thrown into the Havel near Hennigsdorf. After Richard Ungermann the Ungermannstraße (today Wilhelmstraße) and since 1976 the POS "Richard Ungermann" (since 1998 Linden elementary school ) were named. A memorial plaque on the house at Wilhelmstrasse 19 was entered in the monument register, but the house no longer exists. The memorial plaque originally bore the inscription: “Richard Ungermann, nee. July 9, 1908, member of the KPD. Arrested on May 14, 1933 and deported to the SA concentration camp Oranienburg / brewery, part camp Meisnershof, he found death after horrific torture in May 1933. "In the 1980s replaced by:" The anti-fascist fighter Richard Ungermann nee lived here. 7/9/1908 murdered by the fascists on 5/16/1933 ”.

Laying date

The first four Stolpersteine ​​in the Breite Straße 74 in Velten were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on March 30, 2015. On February 20, 2020, he laid three more Stolpersteine ​​in Wilhelmstraße.

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Velten  - Collection of images

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Marco Winkler: Three new stumbling blocks: "We should be vigilant". In: moz.de. February 8, 2020, accessed February 19, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Roland Becker: Commemoration: Velten receives three more stumbling blocks. In: moz.de. October 21, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database - Gustav Gersinski. In: ushmm.org. Retrieved February 19, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Ulrike Puvogel, Stefanie Endlich: Velten . In: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism: A Documentation . tape 2 . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-391-5 , p. 362 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} BP 41 environmental statements In: velten.de , accessed on February 19, 2020 (PDF; 14.6 MB, list of monuments 2013)
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Marion Bergsdorf: Stumbling and remembering in Borgsdorf and Velten In: maz-online.de , March 31, 2015, accessed on February 21, 2020.
7. ↑ Moz.de: Stolpersteine ​​laid in Velten , accessed on May 6, 2019 (picture gallery of the laying)
8. ↑ Roland Becker: Warning: Three stumbling blocks for three fates. In: moz.de. February 20, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 . 

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