On our way back to our hotel, before leaving Trier, we walked past this old university, Episcopal Seminary and Jesuit Church. It’s served many functions through the centuries.
What caught our attention were the Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones in front of the gate. These stones memorialize Jewish graduates who were banned from their professions and taken from here. You can read about what happened to them here. Most were killed.
STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONES for:
Dr. Alexander Wolf
Dr. Ernst Isay
Dr. Ernst Mayer
Dr. Hermann Wolff
Dr. Jakob Kahn
Dr. Paul Maas
Dr. Raphael Kaufmann
Dr. Rudolf Max Isay
Dr. Salomon Döblin
Wolfgang Ze’ev Steinberg
Paul Rothschild
These other 7 Stolpersteine are memorials to 7 martyred priests who were killed for opposing Hitler’s regime. They taught in this school.
Joseph Bechtel
Wilhelm Caroli
Johannes Ries
Peter Schlicker
Johannes Schulz
Jakob Anton Ziegler
Josef Zilliken
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