Stumbling Stone Raphaëlstraat 6

This small, brass, memorial plaque (stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Eva Klein-Schuit, born 1912, arrested 7 August 1942, deported from Mechelen, murdered 3 November 1942, Auschwitz.

Eva was born in Amsterdam in 1912. She became a steno-typist. A photograph of her is on the Joods Monument website. Little else was found. She married a man named Klein, and they had four children. At least three of the children apparently survived as did their father. Information on the death of the fourth child, born in 1937, is unknown.

Eva herself was deported from Mechelen/Malines, Belgium, on 31 October 1942. The transport arrived in Auschwitz on 3 November, and 919 deportees were taken immediately to the gas chambers and killed. Eva Klein-Schuit was 30 years old.

Eva’s parents were also murdered in the Shoah – Barend Schuit in Auschwitz on 26 October 1942 and Keetje Schuit-Verdoner in Sobibor on 28 May 1943. Stolpersteine for them and Mijntje Tailleur-Schuit (1915-1944) and Meijer Tailleur (1915-1944) are at Pythagorasstraat 24 III, Amsterdam.


"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1), Ruby Democh (2), Ruby Democh (3), Ruby Democh (4), Ruby Democh (5)
• Joods Monument
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Yad Vashem Deportation Database: Transport XVII
• Stolpersteine.eu