Memorial tablet in Tarnobrzeg/Stolperstein in Würzburg

  • This May we are planning to instal a memorial tablet for Marian Ruzamski, a famous Polish painter, in Tarnobrzeg. The event will be supported by the German-Polish- Jugendwerk and europafels. Furthermore a Stolperstein will be installed in Würzburg at the 5th of July. It will be devoted to Käthe Heippert, a young woman, who was deported to Auschwitz with her little daughter. At the same day the students will present their project in Shalom Europa. The event will be framed by two scientific lectures and Polish, Jewish and German music. The events in May and July will be the summarising point of our project.

    The project groups from Wurzburg and Tarnobrzeg hope that mutual understanding and co-operation between our neighbouring countries will ensure peaceful relationships in the future.

    Source: Wikipedia:

    A stolperstein (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɔlpəʁˌʃtaɪn] from German, literally "stumbling block") is a type of monument created by artist Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of Nazi oppression, including the Holocaust. Stolpersteins are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for individual victims of Nazism. They commemorate individuals – both those who died and survivors – who were consigned by the Nazis to prisons, euthanasia facilities, sterilization clinics, concentration camps, and extermination camps, as well as those who responded to persecution by emigrating or committing suicide.