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Commemorative campaign: Stumbling blocks for Nazi victims in Weinstadt on October 15th!
On October 15, 2025, two stumbling blocks for Nazi victims will be laid in Weinstadt. Artist Günter Demnig conducts the ceremony.
Commemorative campaign: Stumbling blocks for Nazi victims in Weinstadt on October 15th!
A moving event will take place in Weinstadt on October 15, 2025: the laying of two stumbling blocks for Nazi victims. This ceremony, which represents a significant gesture of remembrance, is personally carried out by Berlin artist Günter Demnig. At 9 a.m. the first stumbling block will be laid at Prinz-Eugen-Platz 5 in Großheppach, where a stumbling block for Friederike Anna Linder will be laid. Claudio took over the sponsorship of this stumbling block, which underlines the personal connection and commitment of those involved.
The Holocaust, which culminated 80 years ago, seems to be increasingly fading from collective memory. Six million people were persecuted and murdered during this dark period. In order to keep the memory of the victims alive, the artist Günter Demnig initiated the “Stolperstein” project. These small, golden paving stones are placed in front of the victim's last place of residence and bear the name, date of birth and death and a brief description of the victim's fate. The Stolpersteine encourage passers-by to pause and read the stories of those being persecuted, which is part of a decentralized approach to remembrance. The Vienna Holocaust Library reports on the widespread distribution of these memorial stones in Germany and in countries that were occupied by the Nazis.
A step towards coming to terms with history
In May 2023, the hundred thousandth Stolperstein was installed, a milestone for the project that helps keep the names and stories of Holocaust victims alive. The installation of the stumbling blocks has not only symbolic but also practical effects by bringing memories into the public eye and promoting commitment to coming to terms with history. The commitment of volunteers like 19-year-old Bela Wessollek, who has been active in the Vienna Holocaust Library since September 2022, shows that this work of remembrance is also carried out by the younger generations.
Wessollek has initiated a new Stolperstein project and contacted the descendants of Ellen Ruth Jackson, a persecuted woman from Eberswalde who was sent to Great Britain on a children's transport in 1939. Together with Ruth's children, she plans to install five stumbling blocks in front of the family's last place of residence in Eberswalde, which underlines the importance of personal stories and family in memorial work.
The upcoming laying of the Stolpersteine in Weinstadt is not just a local commemoration event, but part of a larger movement committed to maintaining the memory of the crimes of National Socialism. The memorial stones symbolize the effort to keep the memory of the victims alive and at the same time send a message against forgetting. ZVW reports on the event and its significance for the local community.