List of stumbling blocks in Wittlich
The list of the stumbling blocks in Wittlich results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in the Rhineland-Palatinate district town of Wittlich , which remind those people of the fate that the Nazis murdered, deported, were expelled or driven to suicide.
In January 2009, the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Wittlich city council applied for stumbling blocks to be laid in the city. A few months later this request was withdrawn because the group said that no proper debate was possible. Other private initiatives to move stumbling blocks on the city's property were also unsuccessful. On February 22, 2014, Demnig laid two stumbling blocks in the courtyard of the Wittlich correctional facility , the property of which belongs to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in the presence of the Rhineland-Palatinate Justice Minister Jochen Hartloff . The laying of the Stolperstein in Wittlich on the "soil" of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was initiated in spring 2014 after years of preparation by the Georg-Meistermann-Gesellschaft, Wittlich, after there were no possibilities to lay them on the grounds of the city of Wittlich.
List of stumbling blocks
| image | Surname | Location | Laying date | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean Daligault | in the courtyard of the Wittlich prison (Trierer Landstrasse 64) | Feb 22, 2014 |
Held here JEAN DALIGAULT JG. ARRESTED 1899 IN 1941 FRANCE NN PRISONER IN PRISON FRESNES HINZERT / WITTLICH STADELHEIM / DACHAU MURDERED 5.4.1945 |
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| Karl Heinz Scheurer | in the courtyard of the Wittlich prison (Trierer Landstrasse 64) | Feb 22, 2014 |
Held here KARLHEINZ SCHEURER JG. IN 1916 ARRESTED 1937 PRISON WITTLICH DETACHED 1940 DÜREN SANITARY INSTITUTE RELOCATED April 1st, 1940 WALDHEIM SANITARY INSTITUTE MURDERED April 16th, 1941 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Jansen: Stumbling blocks remain a topic in Wittlich (November 9, 2012), accessed on February 23, 2014.
- ^ Sibylla Hege-Bettac: Art against forgetting - stumbling blocks in front of the Wittlich prison
- ^ Georg-Meistermann-Gesellschaft Wittlich Homepage of the society
