Heinrich Schloss
A small brass square sits flush with the pavement in Trier, easy to miss until the light catches it. The artist Gunter Demnig set it there as a Stolperstein, a stumbling stone, for Heinrich Schloss. It lies outside the house where he lived before Nazi persecution destroyed his life.
Heinrich belonged to a long-established Jewish family in the city. Under the Nazi regime he was deported, alongside other relatives, and murdered. The stone breaks the anonymity that surrounds fates like his: a name and an address in place of a distant number. Stolpersteine have lain in the city since 2005, each one returning a name and a story to the pavement. Each one asks passers-by to picture a daily life cut short.
Nothing lifts the stone above foot level, and it asks for no ceremony: a short pause is enough. Reading the name means lowering your eyes to the ordinary ground of the street. You leave the brass behind as you walk on, and the name goes with you for a moment longer.
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