Stumbling Stones Pythagorasstraat 24

These small, brass, memorial plaques (stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Barend Schuit, born 1888, murdered 26 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Keetje Schuit-Verdoner, born 1887, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Mijntje Tailleur-Schuit, born 1915, murdered 31 January 1944, Auschwitz.
* Meijer Tailleur, born 1915, murdered 31 January 1944, Auschwitz.

Barend Schuit, a merchant, and Keetje Verdoner married and had two daughters, Mijntje and Eva, and had another child who survived. Information on their deportations was not found.

Mijntje Schuit, a seamstress, married Meijer Tailleur, a sales representative. No evidence of children was found. Mijntje and Meijer were killed in Auschwitz on the same day. Both were 28 years old.

Eva Schuit married a man named Klein. He and their children survived, but Eva did not. A stolperstein for her is at Raphaëlstraat 6 in 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: Ruby Democh (1), Ruby Democh (2)
• Joods Monument
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Stolpersteine.eu