Fanny Steiner
Fanny Steiner is a brass Stolperstein set into a pavement in Frankfurt, Germany, commemorating a Jewish woman who lived in the city. Its surface records her name, birth date, and fate, placing one life within the streets where she once lived.
In 1941, aged 83, Fanny Steiner wrote to Frankfurt’s mayor about her family’s long history and her son Willy’s service in the First World War. She was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and murdered there on 2 March 1943. The Stolpersteine project began in 1992 through artist Gunter Demnig, and Frankfurt has more than 1,200 such plaques.
The small brass square invites remembrance at street level, where passers-by encounter Holocaust history beneath their feet.
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