Overview

• The memorial stone, installed by the Verein Garten der Frauen, honors Gertraud Bräuer, Anna Beuschel, Frieda Roblick, and Ruth Schult, who were killed by Fritz Honka between 1970 and 1975.
• Two of the victims had previously been interned in Nazi concentration camps, labeled as 'asocial' during the regime.
• The women, born between 1917 and 1928, lived in poverty and relied on sex work to survive, remaining largely anonymous in public memory until now.
• The portraits featured on the memorial are criminal police photographs, emphasizing the lack of personal documentation available for these marginalized women.
• The Honka case inspired the 2016 novel 'Der goldene Handschuh' by Mathias Halfpape and its 2017 film adaptation by Fatih Akin, which renewed public discussion about gendered violence and societal memory.