Stolpersteine in the district of Braunau am Inn

Stolpersteine in the district of Braunau am Inn

The artist Gunter Demnig has put down approximately 9.000 Stolpersteine since 1996 in order to commemorate the victims of Nazi- Germany

On August 11th, 2006 he but down eleven Stolpersteine in eight municipalities of the district Braunau am Inn. The former „Heimatgau des Führers“ (the place, where Adolf Hitler was born) is the first area which is covered all over the country by Stolpersteine. They’re put down in front of former residences of persons who were persecuted because of many different reasons.The eleven Stolpersteine remind of the Jehova’s Witness Anna Sax (from Braunau am Inn), the four Communists and the Socialist Franz Amberger, Adolf Wenger (both from Braunau am Inn), Johann Lenz and Josef Weber (both from Hackenbuch/Moosdorf), of Franz Jägerstätter (From Sankt Radegund), who refused his constription orders, of father Ludwig S. Binder (Maria Schmolln), the Sinto Johann Kerndlbacher (Hochburg – Ach), the victims of the NS-military legal system and of Michael Nimmerfahl (from Braunau am Inn), who was killed in Gestapo imprisonment.The Stolpersteine were put down in the presence of local politicians, the media and local inhabitants. Among the inhabitants of the district and beyond, the Stolpersteine project led to a new interest on the forgotten victims.

History

The cultural initiative KNIE already invited Demnig in 1997 to Oberndorf near Salzburg. After the in St. Georgen near Salzburg put down Stolpersteine for Jehova’s Witnesses Johann and Matthias Nobis had been destroyed unintentionally, the political scientist Andreas Maislinger, who originates from this area and now lives in Innsbruck, invited Demnig to renew the destroyed and put down some more Stolpersteine in the adjoining district of Braunau am Inn.On June 13th and 14th, 2007 the initiative will be continued by 30 new Stolpersteine for Sinti and Euthanasia-victims in cooperation with Schloss Hartheim and the Ketani Association.

See also

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, Hitler birthplace memorial stone

Literature

* Ludwig Laher, Herzfleischentartung. Roman. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2003. (German)
* Florian Schwanninger, Im Heimatkreis des Führers. Nationalsozialismus, Widerstand und Verfolgung im Bezirk Braunau am Inn 1938 - 1945. Edition Geschichte der Heimat, Grünbach (Oberösterreich), 2005. ISBN 3-902427-18.3. (German)

External links

* [http://www.hrb.at/stolpersteine Stolpersteine im Bezirk Braunau am Inn] (German)