First stumbling block (Stolperstein) laid in East Tyrol

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On November 13th in the Leisach community hall, numerous people present commemorated Jehovah's Witness Helene Delacher, who was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943.  

 

Under the motto "SIMPLY BRAVE" a stumbling block was laid for her at a memorial event on the 80th anniversary of her death - the first ever in East Tyrol.  Across Europe, over 100,000 stumbling blocks already commemorate the fates of Nazi victims.  

 

The community of Leisach and the Lila Winkel association, an association for the rehabilitation and support of victims of the Nazi era, invited.  Helene Delacher is considered the only Austrian Jehovah's Witness sentenced to death and executed by the Nazi military justice system.

 

 Peter Stocker, board member of the Lila Winkel association, as well as Dr.  Gerti Malle, Mauthausenguide and Mag.ᵃ Alexandra Schmidt, chairwoman of the Remember Villach association, emphasized in their speeches the extraordinary importance of a living culture of remembrance.

 

 Helene Delacher's farewell letter to her then fiancé, Alois Hochrainer, read out by Natalie Hasslacher, and the ceremonial handover of Lena Huber's pre-scientific work to the community of Leisach about Delacher's fate also showed the interest of young people in this topic.  

 

A new composition “Da Helene z`liab” by Walter Hasslacher dedicated to Helene Delacher was the moving musical highlight of the event.

 

 Thanks also go to Mayor Ing. Bernhard Zanon, who supported this memorial project from the start and who dedicated a place of honor to Helene Delacher, a daughter of the community of Leisach, with East Tyrol's first stumbling block directly in front of the community office.

 

Google Translated article

https://www.meinbezirk.at/osttirol/c-regionauten-community/erster-stolperstein-in-osttirol-verlegt_a6378446 

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I was recently in Europe, and stumbled across ones like this.

The term seems confusing, but it is explained on this website:

https://www.hamburg.com/sights/memorials/11748536/stolpersteine/#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%20many%20commemorative%20cobblestones,front%20of%20their%20former%20homes.

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Edited November 16, 2023 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone