Else Lewin

Set into the pavement in Gotha, a small brass Stolperstein marks the home of Else Lewin and her husband Heinrich. The brass surface carries Else’s name in the pavement.

After the First World War, Else and Heinrich married in Berlin and built their family life at this address. Their son Alfred was born at this address. Gotha’s Jewish community had a visible place in local life before Nazi rule brought persecution and fear. The Lewin family faced that changing world in their Gotha home. Else and Heinrich were deported from this house to the Belzyce ghetto. Else did not survive the Holocaust after her deportation. Afterward, records contain no further trace of Else.

Her story joins the histories of a family separated, a community persecuted, and a world erased by Nazi violence. The stone keeps her address visible in Gotha. Brass, pavement, and a name connect this historical marker with the life once rooted here. The marker preserves memory at the threshold of her former home.