"Stolperstein" ("stumbling block") memorial for Elli Plaut located at Am Forsthof 21, Wuppertal, Germany. The text reads: "Here lived Elli Plaut, nee Friedländer, widowed as Katzenstein, born 1884. Humiliated / disenfranchised, escape into death suicide 15 November 1938." Ella Plaut's second marriage was to Dr. Theodor Plaut, a physician specializing in gastroenterology who served as a Social Democratic alderman in the city council of Frankfurt am Main until the Nazi seizure of power. Additional information on the family appears in the Wikipedia article on Elli Plaut's stepson, Richard Plant.