Valerie (Valeria, Käthe Erna) Hess
Valerie (Valeria, Käthe Erna) Hess is commemorated by a Stolperstein in Würzburg, set into the pavement near her last freely chosen home. The small brass plaque brings a personal history into an ordinary residential street. Its surface identifies the person remembered and connects her fate with Nazi persecution. The ground-level setting lets wheelchair users reach the memorial.
Würzburg places such stones throughout the city, where Jewish residents and other persecuted groups are remembered in the streets they once knew. Gunter Demnig began the Stolpersteine project in Germany during the 1990s. Each plaque turns a pavement into a quiet site of remembrance, bringing history into daily movement through the city. Volunteers and local organisations clean the brass so the names remain visible.
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