The Stolpersteine ​​project was initiated by the artist Gunter Demnig. 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.

In Bremen nearly 1,500 people fell victim to the National Socialist dictatorship; the number of people deported, persecuted or taken into “protective custody” is many times higher. The artist Gunter Demnig commemorates the victims of National Socialism by setting stumbling blocks – commemorative plaques made of brass – in the pavement in front of their last, mostly self-chosen, place of residence. Between 2004 and 2016 over 660 stumbling blocks were laid in Bremen. An extensive biographical search for traces preceded the minimal biographical data on the stumbling blocks. The Initiativkreis Stolpersteine ​​Bremen will publish all biographies in several volumes, sorted by city and district. The books build on each other in that, in addition to the local focus, they also contain different basic depictions of Bremen during the Nazi era.

Volume 1: North region (Burglesum, Vegesack, Blumenthal, Ritterhude), Volume 2: Center (old town/Bahnhofsvorstadt), Volume 3: Ostertor/Oestliche Vorstadt and Volume 4: Schwachhausen/Horn-Lehe have already been published by Sujet-Verlag. The fifth volume that has now been published includes Findorff, Walle and Gröpelingen. In addition to biographical outlines, it contains articles on traces of the Nazi era in West Bremen, on the Mißler concentration camp in Findorff and on the Jewish old people's home in Gröpelingen, supplemented by an article on the deportation of Bremen's Jews to the Theresienstadt ghetto based on the latest research. A city map with the entry of the places of laying is included and enables a personal search for clues.

here go to the “Stolpersteine ​​Bremen” website.