Stumbling Stone Sint Jorisstraat 125

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 04-05-2018, commemorates:
* IVOR ARNOLD TROOSTWIJK (born 13-11-1943, murdered 28-1-1944, Auschwitz)

This Stolperstein is here for a Jewish war victim, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

In October 1943, pregnant Annie Troostwijk-Samuel and her husband Abraham Troostwijk fled from razzia-ridden Arnhem to Amsterdam.
They left their one-year-old daughter Greetje behind at a safe house.
Amsterdam did not prove safe either. The Jewish couple took the gamble: by train to Belgium. But things went wrong at Den Bosch station. Together they ended up in the
local Detention Centre.
Son Ivor was born in the House of Detention on Saturday 13 November 1943.
After a month, Annie, Abraham and Ivor had to be transported to Westerbork. On 25 January, Annie, Ivor and 946 other Jews were crammed into freight wagons
After three days, mother and child arrived in Auschwitz. That same day, they were murdered.

"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 sidewalk in front of the last voluntary residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. 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: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Lennard Bolijn
• Ivor Arnold Troostwijk | Joodsmonument.nl