On the initiative of our association, a stumbling threshold was set at the Kahla train station on Friday, September 20, 2024, by the artist Gunter Demnig, who is known throughout Europe for his Europe-wide setting of “Stolpersteine” or stumbling stones.
It commemorates the more than 12,000 people who arrived here at the station from April 1944 onwards and were used as forced labourers to build the underground Nazi aircraft factory “REIMAHG”. The mayor Mr. Schönfeld began the ceremony with introductory words, which was followed by short speeches by the delegat of the district Mrs. Schmidt, our president Mrs. Brion and the Kahla pastor Mrs. Wedding, who placed a rose on the threshold at the end of her speech.
We thank our members and all those who took part in this unique inauguration.
This stumbling block is now part of the largest decentralized memorial monument in the world. Information about the history of the Nazi armaments factory can be found in a stone with a QR code next to it.
