Stolpersteine in Kolín

They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.

Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self-chosen residence.

[1] The Stolpersteine from Kolín thus memorize only a small fraction of the Jewish losses during the Shoah.

On 28 October 1944, at last, his sister, her husband Pavel Heller and their 15 years old son Walter were deported to Auschwitz and gassed immediately after arrival.

[7][8] Richard Feder survived the Shoah, returned to Kolín and reestablished the Jewish community there.

All her siblings were killed during the Shoah: Adolf in 1942 in Trawniki, Josef in 1943 in Riga, Růžena and František both in 1944 in Auschwitz.

[30] On 10 August 1942, his daughter Zdeňka and his granddaughter Eva arrived in Theresienstadt, being deported from Prague.

[31][32] Nevertheless, Gustav Mandelík died on 31 October of the same year in Theresienstadt, due to Cachexia caused by starvation, overpopulation and lack of hygiene.

Her daughter Zdeňka, her son-in-law Robert Nettl and her sister Gizela Brumlová were all murdered in 1944, also in Auschwitz.

On 13 June 1942, she, her sister Hedvika, her daughter Gusta and her son-in-law Leo Schmolka were arrested and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp by transport AAd.

The Stolpersteine in Kolín were collocated by the artist himself on the following dates: The Czech Stolperstein project was initiated in 2008 by the Česká unie židovské mládeže (Czech Union of Jewish Youth) and was realized with the patronage of the Mayor of Prague.