Stolpersteine in Copenhagen
In June 2019 it was finally our turn to get a visit from the German artist Gunter Demnig who since 1992 has placed brazen memorials in the pavements where Danish Jews lived before they died in Holocaust.
The three Stolpersteine at the Synagogue in Krystalgade. The police are on guard day and night after a terror attack in 2014
Thre Stolpersteine for the old people who lived in the nursing home at the Synagogue
You can find the 12 ‘Stones’ by chance, but the best way is to search for the addresses. In the link above, there is a map with all the memorials’ position. Copenhagen is not a huge city, you can easily walk around and see it all on foot.
Here lived Ernst Platzko born 1882 deported from Denmark in 1940 died in Sachsenhausen October 1942
Here lived Ruth Fanni Niedrig born 1920 deported from Denmark in 1940 and died August 1943
Here lived Rosa Nachemsohn born 1868 died December 1943 in Theresienstadt
Here lived Thora Krogmann born 1867- Died 1944 in Theresienstadt
Here lived Pinkus Katz born 1875 died in Theresienstadt August 1944
By a combined effort by many people at the time most of our Jews were rescued to Sweden on illegal boat trips in the middle of Yom Kippur in October 1943. On the list are also German Jews who were shamefully forced out of Denmark. They had come as fugitives or students to save their lives from Hitler’s cruel regime.
Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine project is the world’s largest memorial with 74.000 brass ‘stones’ in 26 different countries.
To end this post on a lighter note, I would like to show you some of the old buildings and areas in central Copenhagen. Please click on the photos for a little more info.
The Round Tower from the 1600s in central Copenhagen
The Stork Fountain in Art Nouveau in central Copenhagen
The Stock Exchange from the 1600s in Copenhagen seen from the canal
A street view from Christianhavn a part of central Copenhagen
Our Savior’s Church in Christianshavn
An iconic tower at a bridge in Copenhagen called Knippelsbro
An old storage house made into a hotel in Copenhagen
A view from a street in Christianshavn Copenhagen
The Gefion Fountain at the Langelinje in Copenhagen
A view to Kastellet/ Citadel in Copenhagen at the Churchill Park
The Gefion Fountain at the Langelinje in Copenhagen
The Nyboder Houses from the 1600s in Copenhagen. The Navy’s people lived there
The equestrian statue of a king in front of the Queen’s palace Amalienborg
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From one Heart to Another 
Those victims now have a legacy to remind people what could happen again if humans get careless.
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I am so pleased to hear you say that. One family, I know of have been split ever since. Four of them were sent to Theresienstadt two drowned on their way to Sweden, and one survived the dangerous route to Sweden. The mother and one daughter took their lives after coming back from Theresienstadt and on surviving brother from that experience never forgave the two older surviving brothers for their way of bringing him up after their mother’s death. So even surviving families got splintered afterwards
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It was a horrific situation.
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Two of the brothers share their stories in books and talks at libraries and a few months ago the grandchild of the youngest who had cut all connection to the family and did a documentary on what had happened between the siblings. The ’young’ one still didn’t want anything to do them. His mother had to work in the camp, and he was alone and five years old.
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Such a shame.
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