Isidor Schindel

Isidor Schindel is remembered in Frankfurt through Stolpersteine, small brass plaques set into the pavement. The plaques belong to the Schindel family memorial. Each plaque carries a person’s name, birth date, and fate, connecting an individual life with the history of National Socialism. Mendel and Dora Schindel were deported to Minsk and murdered. Their children Frida, Rosa, Isidor, and Susi escaped through Kindertransport to England and Denmark, while the memorial preserves the family’s names in Frankfurt.

Gunter Demnig initiated the art project behind these decentralised memorials. Each stone marks the last known voluntary residence of the person it commemorates, placing remembrance within an ordinary Frankfurt street. The pavement therefore becomes a place of memory. The project follows a Talmudic idea that forgetting begins when a person’s name disappears. Isidor Schindel remains part of that named history. The brass surface brings a family record into direct view, where a name, a date, and a fate meet the daily life of the city. Frankfurt keeps this history in its streets.