Stumbling blocks in Kippenheim

The stumbling blocks in Kippenheim are special paving stones in sidewalks that are intended to commemorate the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship in the municipality of Kippenheim in the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

Stumbling blocks

The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig . These small memorial plaques are intended to commemorate the fate of the people who were murdered, deported , expelled or driven to suicide during National Socialism .

Stumbling blocks are cubic concrete blocks with an edge length of ten centimeters, on the top of which there is an individually labeled brass plate . As a rule, they are set into the pavement at the same level in front of the last freely chosen houses of the Nazi victims . There are now over 61,000 stones (as of July 2017) not only in Germany, but also in 21 other European countries. The Stolpersteine ​​are the largest decentralized memorial in the world.

After the Kippenheim municipal council decided in a public meeting on April 19, 2004 to lay stumbling blocks in the community, the first stumbling blocks were laid on January 13, 2005. In the meantime, 13 stones have been laid on the sidewalks of Kippenheim.

Note: The date under the respective picture indicates when the stone was laid.

Jews in Kippenheim

The history of the Jewish community of Kippenheim goes back to the 17th century , its highest number of members it reached in 1871, when 323 people made up about 16% of the total population. In 1933, the Jewish tradesmen had a considerable share in the economic life of the place: There was an iron and building materials store that was important for the entire region, a general store, a grain, flour and feed wholesaler, two leather dealers, two manufactory stores, two butchers, a shoe dealer, three cloth dealers, a tobacco wholesaler, two textile shops and ten Jewish cattle dealers.

In 1937, 26 Jews from Kippenheim emigrated, and before the November pogrom of 1938 another 19 people left their home community. Most found asylum in the United States . Of the 144 Jews living in Kippenheim in January 1933, 113 survived the Nazi era, 31 fell victim to the Nazi terror.

Laying stumbling blocks

Bahnhofstrasse 2

Coordinates “Bahnhofstraße 2” LIVING HERE /ELLA WACHENHEIMER / GEB. EICHEL / JG. 1894 / DEPORTED 1940 GURS / MURDERED 1942 / AUSCHWITZ LIVED HERE /HUGO WACHENHEIMER / JG. 1889 / DEPORTED 1940 GURS / MURDERED 1942 / AUSCHWITZ

Hugo Wachenheimer was born on January 21, 1889. He and his brother ran the grandfather's fabric shop. In 1938 he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp and severely abused. The family wanted to leave Germany, but only daughter Hedy made it to England on her own. Hugo Wachenheimer and his wife Ella were deported to the Camp de Gurs internment camp in 1940, deported to Auschwitz in 1942 and murdered there.

See also : SWR2 Stumbling Blocks to Hear

Bergstrasse 4

Coordinates "Bergstraße 4"

Gerda Auerbacher
(Jan. 13, 2005)

Here lived / GERDA AUERBACHER  / GEB. AUERBACHER / JG. 1895 / DEPORTED 1940 - GURS / MURDERED 1942 IN / AUSCHWITZ

Salomon Auerbacher
(Jan. 13, 2005)

LIVED HERE / SALOMON  / AUERBACHER  / JG. 1888 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / MURDERED IN / AUSCHWITZ

Bergstrasse 10

Coordinates "Bergstraße 10"

Auguste Auerbacher
(October 13, 2005)

LIVED HERE / AUGUSTE  / AUERBACHER  / GEB. ROSENFELD / JG. 1893 / DEPORTED 1940 - GURS / MURDERED 1942 / AUSCHWITZ

Salomon Isaak Auerbacher
(October 13, 2005)

LIVED HERE / SALOMON ISAAK  / AUERBACHER  / JG. 1886 / DEPORTED 1940 - GURS / MURDERED 1942 / AUSCHWITZ

Obere Hauptstrasse 13

Coordinates “Obere Hauptstraße 13” HERE LIVING /FLORA DURLACHER / GEB. EPSTEIN / JG. 1897 / DEPORTED 1942 / MURDERED 1942 IN / AUSCHWITZ

LIVED HERE / GRETEL RINA  / DURLACHER  / JG. 1921 / DEPORTED 1942 / MURDERED 1942 IN / AUSCHWITZ

THERE LIVED / JOHANN NATHAN  / 'HANS' DURLACHER  / JG. 1925 / DEPORTED 1942 / MURDERED 1943 IN / AUSCHWITZ

Hans Durlacher was born on June 23, 1925 as the second child of his parents Flora and Salomon († January 1929) in Kippenheim. Until the November pogrom he attended the secondary school in Ettenheim . Hans was sent to live with relatives in Strasbourg . After his sister and mother followed in July 1939, the family fled to unoccupied France. In August 1942 Hans, Gretel and Flora Durlacher were arrested near Limoges and deported by Drancy to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where they were murdered.

See also : SWR2 Stumbling Blocks to Hear

Poststrasse 2

Coordinates “Poststrasse 2” HERE WOHNTE /FANNY VALFER / JG. 1886 / GEST. 1942 AUSCHWITZ

LIVED HERE / MAX VALFER  / JG. 1880 / GEST. 1942 AUSCHWITZ

Untere Hauptstrasse 2

Coordinates “Untere Hauptstraße 2” HERE WOHNTE /SAMUEL WERTHEIMER / JG. 1874 / MURDERED 1942 / IN MALY TROSTINEK

HER LIVED / SOPHIE WERTHEIMER  / GEB. GÜNZBURGER / JG. 1877 / MURDERED 1942 / IN MALY TROSTINEK

Untere Hauptstrasse 7

Coordinates "Untere Hauptstraße 7"

Hermann Wertheimer
(October 13, 2005)

HERMANN  / WERTHEIMER  / JG LIVED HERE . 1885 / LAST JEWISH / COMMUNITY
LEADER EMIGRATES 1942 / NEW YORK / DEAD / AT THE CONSEQUENCES / THE ESCAPE

Untere Hauptstrasse 13

Coordinates "Untere Hauptstraße 13"

Käthe Wachenheimer
(October 13, 2005)

LIVED HERE / KÄTHE  / WACHENHEIMER  / GEB. HONEST / DEPORTED 1940 - GURS / MURDERED 1942 / AUSCHWITZ

Oskar Wachenheimer
(October 13, 2005)

LIVED HERE / OSKAR  / WACHENHEIMER  / JG. 1893 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / MURDERED 1942 / AUSCHWITZ

literature

• Joachim Rönneper : On my doorstep. “Stumbling blocks” by Gunter Demnig. A companion book . Arachne-Verlag, Gelsenkirchen 2010, ISBN 978-3-932005-40-4 .

Web links

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

• “ Project" Stolpersteine ​​"now also in Kippenheim ” on www.kippenheim.de
• Kippenheim - From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area
• Jewish citizens of Kippenheim in the " Memorial in Neckarzimmern for the deported Jews of Baden and memorial book project "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In #Turin (Italy) the 50,000th #Stolperstein in Europe was laid today! He is reminiscent of Eleonora Levi. #Demnig @_Stolpersteine_ on January 11, 2015 on Twitter.
2. ↑ Andreas Nefzger: The trace layer. In: FAZ.net . February 7, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
3. ↑ From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area ; accessed on September 10, 2017
4. ↑ Article “ Hedy Epstein for his 85th birthday ” in Neue Rheinische Zeitung / NRhZ-ONLINE, August 26, 2009; accessed on September 10, 2017
5. ↑ SWR2, Stumbling Blocks to Hear: " Hugo Wachenheimer: He was only able to save his daughter Hedy "; accessed on September 10, 2017
6. ↑ SWR2, Stumbling Stones to Hear: " Hans Durlacher: Only a flea market find gives evidence "; accessed on September 10, 2017

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