Overview

• Stolpersteine commemorating the Jewish Hené family were violently removed from Steinstraße in Kaiserslautern last week, leaving a hole now provisionally filled.
• City officials have labeled the act a deliberate, antisemitic attack on Holocaust remembrance and public memory culture.
• Mayor Manfred Schulz strongly condemned the theft, calling it an assault on the city’s values of respect, humanity, and opposition to hate and violence.
• Authorities in Kaiserslautern have pledged to reinstall the stolen Stolpersteine and are conducting investigations into the incident.
• The theft is part of a broader pattern of targeted attacks on Stolpersteine, with approximately 900 stolen worldwide out of 112,000 installed since the project’s inception.