Description

About the stumbling blocks:

The Stolpersteine ​​project was initiated by the artist Gunter Demnig, who was born in Berlin in 1947 and studied art education and industrial design. He developed the concept for the stumbling blocks back in the early 1990s, but the project only got off to a good start in 2000. So far, Demnig has embedded more than 1,000 of the paving stones in the sidewalks of Europe, which bear a brass plaque marking the last self-chosen place of residence of victims of the Mark Nazi regime.

"I am pleased that the volume on the stumbling blocks in Neustadt is now available.
The stumbling blocks remind us that fascism in Germany from 1933 to 1945 also took place in our immediate living environment - with bitter consequences for the people of Bremen and deadly for the victims honored here.
The variety of victim biographies is frightening: no one whose origin, political and/or religious convictions or physical or psychological condition did not correspond to the prevailing ideology was safe from persecution. To remember this and to commemorate the victims - at the same time on behalf of many others - is an important reminder for our present and future!"

Annemarie Czichon

Head of the Neustadt/Woltmershausen local office