Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the victims of Nazi Germany being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide. The first Stolpersteine of the Trnavský kraj, the Trnava Region of present-day Slovakia (formerly Czechoslovakia), were collocated in August 2016.
Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Slovak is: pamätné kamene, memorial stones.
The lists are sortable; the basic order follows the alphabet according to the last name of the victim.
On 13 August 2018, three Stolpersteine were collocated in Dunajská Streda. The inscriptions are both in Slovak and in Hungarian language.[1]
| Stone | Inscription | Location | Life and death | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < | ----> | HERE LIVED | |||
| < | ----> | HERE LIVED | née Grünwald | ||
| < | ----> | HERE LIVED | née Kornfeld |
1.065 inhabitants of Piešťany with Jewish roots were murdered in the course of the Shoah. The Stolperstein of Piešťany was posed by Gunter Demnig himself on 6 August 2016.
The Stolpersteine in Smolenice were posed by Gunter Demnig himself on 6 August 2016.
| Stone | Inscription | Location | Life and death | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HERE LIVED | Obrancov mieru 43 | , also Fridrich and Frigyes, was born on 3 September 1907. He was married. His last residence before deportation was in Neštich, now Smolenická Nová Ves. On 13 April 1942 he was deported from Sereď to Auschwitz concentration camp. His transport number was 21. He was murdered by the Nazi regime.[5] [6] | ||
HERE LIVED | SNP 290/85 | was born on 26 December 1896 in Smolenice. His mother was Rozália Sidonová (see below). He was married to Júlia née Blau. The couple had a daughter, Blanka (see below). Jakob Sidon, his wife, their daughter Blanka and his mother were all deported on 11 April 1942 from Trnava to Lublin Ghetto. They were all murdered by the Nazi regime, according to the Stolperstein in 1942 in Auschwitz.[7] Reports on the death of Jakub Sidon, Blanka and Julia Sidonová were submitted to Yad Vashem in 2008 by a relative of his wife, Eva Duricková, who lived in Trenčín at that time. | ||
HERE LIVED | SNP 290/85 | was born 1934 in Smolenice. Her parents were Jakub Sidon (see above) and Júlia née Blau (see below). The girl, her parents and her grand mother Rozália were all deported on 11 April 1942 from Trnava to Lublin Ghetto. They were all murdered by the Nazi regime, according to the Stolperstein in 1942 in Auschwitz.[8] Also her grandparents from the maternal side and her uncle Shmel lost their lives in the course of the Shoah. | ||
HERE LIVED | SNP 290/85 | née Blau, also Juliška, was born on 20 May1900 in Čachtice. Her parents were Filip Blau, a baker, born in 1872, and Amalia née Berger, born in 1875. She had three brothers and three sisters. Two of them were Samuel (b. 1906) and Blanka (b. 1912). She was married to Jakub Sidon (see above). The couple had at least two children, Blanka (see above). She was a housewife. Mother, father, their 7 years old daughter and her mother-in-law were all deported on 11 April 1942 from Trnava to Lublin Ghetto. They were all murdered by the Nazi regime, according to the Stolperstein in 1942 in Auschwitz.[9] Her parents and five of her siblings were also murdered in the course of the Shoah.[10] | ||
HERE LIVED | SNP 290/85 | was born on 14 March 1863 in Bíňovce to Samuel / Schmaj Sidon (born 1839) and Blumenta Vogel.[11] She was the widow of Márkusz Meir Sidon (born 8 Mar 1843, Died 19 Mar 1937 in Smolenice),[12] with whom she had 6 children (all born in Smolenice):
Rozalia's last residence before deportation was in Smolenice, where she lived with her son, her daughter-in-law and their children. She and her family were deported on 11 April 1942 from Trnava to Lublin Ghetto and lost her life in the course of the Shoah.[19] |