Cologne - Mainzer Strasse

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

Three "Stolpersteine" dedicated to the memory of Grete, Max and their son Heinz Cohn, who once lived in the house Mainzer Str. 32. All three were murdered by the Nazis.

Grete Cohn, née Jones, was born in 1888. She was interned in Cologne Müngersdorf, in 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and in 1944 to Auschwitzs, where she was murdered.

Max Cohn was born in 1876. He was interned in Cologne Müngersdorf, in 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, where he was murdered in April 1942.

Heinz Cohn was born in 1922. He was deported 1941 to the Riga Ghetto, in 1944 to KZ Stutthof and from there to KZ Buchenwald. He was murdered in March 1945 (just about two months before the US-armee reached the concentration camp).


"Stolpersteine" are an art project intending to remember as much nazi victims as possible, with small brass covered stones in front of the former houses of the victims. There are more than 2000 in cologne and about 67000 all over Europe.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein

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Wiki:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga_Ghetto

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald_concentration_camp