Hermine Levi

Hermine Levi is a Stolperstein in Stuttgart, a pavement memorial connected with the wider Stolpersteine project. Its brass plate carries Hermine Levi’s name and life dates.

The small concrete cube sits in the pavement at the last place where a person lived or worked freely. Stolpersteine commemorate people persecuted under National Socialism. The project was initiated by German artist Gunter Demnig and creates decentralised memorials across Europe.

Each stone marks one person’s life in public space. The pavement setting asks passers-by to notice a name while moving through the city. The name invites a brief pause in the street.

Local research can involve schoolchildren, teachers and historians, helping preserve the memory attached to each individual stone. This memorial connects Hermine Levi with Stuttgart’s history. Together, the stone, its inscription and its pavement setting make remembrance part of an ordinary urban route. Here, history meets an ordinary Stuttgart street.