On the Track of Child Victims

 It is widely known that children were not spared the terror of the Nazi regime.

These pages will give you a good idea of how Nazi terror affected children in our city.

 

 To this day we have placed 35 Stolpersteine for children and teenagers in Kassel. More are to follow in upcoming years.

In 2017, 15 more stones have been placed. 

 Five years ago we first came across a record from the 1980s on which 108 underaged Jewish victims of the Kassel Nazi regime were listed. We started a research team that would investigate each victim’s fate: the group ‘On the Track of Child Victims’ (see also: ‘Participate’ (Mitmachen) ).

 So far we have been able to identify more than 180 children whose fates are yet to be investigated in detail. None of them had the chance to leave behind any detectable trace of themselves in their home town.

 Often we do not know anything about them besides their birth-and-death dates (eg. No. 2, 5 and 7). The results of our research are thus mostly limited to information about the victims’ parents. In other cases a wide range of documents exists (eg. victims of euthanasia, no. 6).

 We are still at the beginning of our research when it comes to - for instance - Romani people, for whom we have not been able to place any Stolpersteine so far.

 

We are grateful for every piece of information that helps us with our research.

translated by Helen Neyer

 

List of the present Stolpersteine for child victims in Kassel (2017)

 

 

 

 

Name

Date of birth

Fate

age

Location

 

Date

1

Ruth Elias

1924

1933 escape to Holland, survived

9 *

Schillerstraße 38

2013

2

Margot Cilli Rosengarten

1931

1941 Riga 1943 murdered Auschwitz

12

Müllergasse 2

2013

3

Helen Edelstein

1934

1939 Flucht Südafrika, überlebt

6

Sickingenstraße 11

2014

4

Gabriella Shapiro

1937

1939 escape to South Africa, survived

2 *

Sickingenstraße 11

2014

5

Renée Fanny Laufer

1933

1942 murdered Majdanek

9

Oberste Gasse 34

2014

6

Helmut Wurr

1933

1943 murdered Hadamar

10

Die Freiheit 15

2014

7

Jutti Ziering

1939

1941 Riga murdered

2

Schillerstraße 7

2014

8

Bernhard Plappla

1927

1941 Stutthof murdered

14

Müllergasse 3

2015

9

Lore Israel, married Wolf

1922

1943 murdered Auschwitz

21

Herkulesstraße 107

2015

10

Horst Wertheim

1922

1941 Riga 1943 murdered

20

Weißenburgstraße 8

2014

11

Arno Stern

1924

1933 escape to France, survived

9 *

 Breitscheidstr. 17

2016

12

Marion Lieberg

1924

1939 Kindertransport* to England, survived

14 *

Lessingstraße 18

2016

13

Ralph Lieberg

1933

1942 murdered Sobibor

9

Lessingstraße 18

2016

14

Arno Weinberg

1926

1941 murdered Hadamar

15 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

15

Rosel Weinberg

1920

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine, survived

13 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

16

Regina Weinberg

1922

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine, survived

11 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

17

Helene Weinberg

1924

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine, survived

9 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

18

Max Weinberg

1928

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine, survived

5 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

19

Samy  Weinberg

1928

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine

5 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

20

Bernhard Weinberg

1931

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine, survived

2 *

Schäfergasse 8

2016

21

Lea Rosa Mahr

1928

1939 (?) murdered Poland (occupied)

11(?)

Oberste Gasse 14

2016

22

Dorrith Marianne Oppenheim

1931

1939 Kindertransport* to England, survived

8 *

Kölnische Straße 2

2017

23

Martin Kaufmann

1922

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine

11 *

Kölnische Straße 77

2017

24

Benno Kaufmann

1924

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine

9 *

Kölnische Straße 77

2017

25

Michael Kaufmann

1931

1933 escape to Belgium / Palestine

2 *

Kölnische Straße 77

2017

26

Anna Sichel

1919

1936 escape to South Africa

17 *

Malsburgstraße 2

2017

27

Gerhard Sichel

1923

1936 escape to South Africa

13 *

Malsburgstraße 2

2017

28

Frieda Gewerter

1930

1941 deported Riga, murdered

11

Moritzstraße 13

2017

29

Julius Gewerter

1920

1938 escape to Denmark

18 *

Moritzstraße 13

2017

30

Fritz Gewerter

1920

1939 escape to Palestine

18 *

Moritzstraße 13

2017

31

Ilse Betty Kaufmann

1929

1941 deported Riga, murdered

12

Untere Königsstr. 18

2017

32

Lieselotte Kaufmann

1922

1941 deported Riga, murdered

19

Untere Königsstr. 18

2017

33

Werner Michael Stiefel

1924

1941 deported Riga 1945 Stutthof liberation, died from his prison injuries

20

Grüner Weg 5

 2017

34

Eva Stiefel

1937

1941 deported Riga, murdered

4

Grüner Weg 5

 2017

35

Gerhard Stiefel

1938

1941 deported Riga, murdered

3

Grüner Weg 5

2017

36

Joel Dan Blättner

1938

1941 deported Riga, murdered

3

Landaustraße 9

 2017

 

By clicking on the name you get to the pages with more information about the destinies.

 

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TERMINE  2024

11. Oktober 2024

Verleihung des Arnold-Bode-Preises an Gunter Demnig

18.00 Uhr

Kasseler Kunstverein (Fridericianum)

17. Okt. 2024

Verlegung weiterer Stolpersteine

 

11.00 Uhr

Oberste Gasse / Entenanger

Familie Kaschmann

11.45

Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 8

 

Familie Katz

12.30 Uhr

 

Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 78

 

Hans Wolfgang Lewandowski

14.00 Uhr

 

Wilhelmshöher Allee 6

 

Familie Israel

 

15.00 Uhr

 

Hegelsbergstraße 10

 

Hans Spill

 

 

 

 

 

31. Oktober 2024

Verlegung weiterer Stolpersteine

14. Nov. 2024

19.00 Uhr

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