# Bernhard Hilsenrath

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Bernhard Hilsenrath is associated in Leipzig with a Stolperstein, a small brass plaque set into the pavement. It commemorates a Jewish person connected with the city’s history during Nazi persecution. The stone follows the Stolperstein tradition of marking a victim’s last freely chosen residence with a personal memorial. Its surface typically records “Here lived,” a name, a birth date, and details of deportation, death, or murder.

The Hilsenrath family belonged to Germany’s Jewish community before the war, with roots in Bad Kreuznach and links to other cities. Their experiences reflect restrictions, dispossession, forced relocation, deportation, and the wider trauma of the Holocaust. Leipzig’s Stolpersteine place individual lives within residential streets, business districts, and public spaces, where remembrance becomes part of ordinary movement through the city. A small brass surface underfoot can connect one person’s fate with the history of Leipzig’s Jewish community.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_BernhardHilsenrath_685b937e717a3e13abe9fe5d_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stolperstein_für_Bernhard_Hilsenrath,_Tschaikowskistraße_13,_Leipzig.jpg)

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