Stolperstein dedicated to Friedrich Weiner, A memorial cobblestone in Oslo, Norway
Stolperstein à la mémoire de Friedrich Weiner is a small brass-topped cobblestone set into a sidewalk in central Oslo. Its gold-colored surface carries engraved text with his name, birth year 1873, deportation in 1942, and death at Auschwitz on December 1, 1942, surrounded by rough grey stone.
Friedrich Weiner was born in 1873 and deported from Norway in 1942, then killed at Auschwitz on December 1 of that year. The Oslo Jewish Museum began placing these cobblestones with artist Gunter Demnig in 2010 to mark homes of Jewish Holocaust victims.
This kind of pavement marker turns an ordinary street into a place where passersby notice that deportations began at specific addresses in their own city. People often pause, read the name and dates, and leave small stones on the brass surface as a quiet sign of remembrance.
Look down while walking along the sidewalk, because the small brass square sits flush with the ground and is easy to miss at normal eye level. It is best approached on foot, and reading the engraved lines requires bending or crouching close to the stone.
The plaque sits so flush with the sidewalk that many people step on it without realizing they have crossed a memorial. Its six engraved lines give no biographical detail beyond a name and three stark dates, leaving the rest of the story to the curiosity of each passerby.
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