List of stumbling blocks in Wittenburg

The list of stumbling blocks in Wittenburg contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Wittenburg as part of the project of the same name . They are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Wittenburg. So far, a total of four stumbling blocks have been laid on two dates. (As of 2018)

Laying stumbling blocks

address	Laying date	Person, inscription	image	annotation
Big Street 54	0March 8, 2014	Here lived MAX LAZARUS Jg. 1884 'protective custody' 1938 prison Altstrelitz moved involuntarily 1940 Hamburg deported in 1941 Minsk murdered 11/11/1941		Max Lazarus was born on August 30, 1884 in Wittenburg. In 1909 he took over his father's business at Grosse Strasse 54 and ran it until the Jewish boycott in 1933. He was arrested during the November pogroms in 1938 and was imprisoned in Alt-Strelitz penitentiary from November 10, 1938 to December 2, 1938 . After his release he returned to Wittenburg and moved to Hamburg in January 1940 after his sister's suicide. On November 8, 1941, he was deported from Hamburg to the Minsk ghetto , where he was murdered on November 11, 1941.
		MARTHA LAZARUS, born in 1889, lived here, humiliated / disenfranchised. Escape to death October 15, 1939		Martha Lazarus was born on February 7th, 1889 and was Max's sister. They ran a clothing store at Grosse Strasse 54 that they had taken over from their parents. When she with her business and personal life more and more repression has been exposed, Martha Lazarus committed in October 1939 suicide .
Grosse Strasse 67	March 31, 2015	PHILIP STIEL, born in 1863 , lived here, deported 1942 Theresienstadt murdered November 9 , 1942		Philip Stiel was born on December 13, 1863 in Eschweiler . On July 19, 1942, he was deported from Hamburg to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he died on November 9, 1942.
		ANNA STIEL nee lived here . Jacobson born 1875 deported 1942 Theresienstadt 1944 Auschwitz murdered		Anna Stiel was born as Anna Jacobson on August 10, 1875 in Wittenburg. She later moved to Hamburg and married Philip Stiel there. She was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on July 19, 1942, and on to the Auschwitz extermination camp on May 15, 1944 . Their four children survived the Holocaust.

Relocations

• On March 8, 2014, two stumbling blocks were laid at one address.
• On March 31, 2015, two stumbling blocks were laid at one address.

Web links

• stolpersteine.eu
• Office and city of Wittenburg / municipality of Wittendbod - stumbling blocks in Wittenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lazarus, Max. In: Gedenkbuch - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist tyranny 1933-1945 . Retrieved February 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} K. Owszak: White roses for Max and Martha Lazarus. (PDF; 159 kB) In: amt-wittenburg.de. April 12, 2014, accessed February 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Jürgen Gramenz, Sylvia Ulmer: The Jewish history of the city of Sternberg (Mecklenburg) . tredition, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7323-4813-8 , pp. 320–322 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ Stiel, Philip Marx. In: Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945. Retrieved February 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Stiel, Anna b. Jacobson. In: Memorial Book - Victims of Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945. Retrieved February 22, 2019 . 
6. ^ Wittenburg: Remembering crimes of the Nazi era In: svz.de , April 1, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2019.
7. ↑ Mecklenburg receives twelve more stumbling blocks In: kirche-mv.de , March 4, 2014, accessed on February 21, 2019.
8. ^ Baran: Stumbling stone laying on March 31, 2015. (PDF; 266 kB) In: amt-wittenburg.de. 2015, accessed February 21, 2019 . 

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