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.