Stumbling Stones Frankenstraat 55

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for:
Joseph Sanders
Selma Sanders-Leeraar.

Joseph Sanders was born on August 5, 1889 in Rotterdam. Joseph married Eva Polak on 12 June 1919 in Rotterdam. On November 14, 1926 he married Selma Leeraar in Rotterdam. Selma was born on March 10, 1902 in Maastricht.
Joseph and Selma had three children together: Anneke (1939-1997), David (1927-2008) and Mark (1929) All this children have survived the war.
Joseph Sander and Selma Sanders-Leeraar were both murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Joseph was murdered on September 30, 1942, and a year later on November 19, 1943, Selma was murdered.

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries.
It reminds the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, in which the name, date of birth and decease and also place of decease is punched into.
The Stolperstein gets a place in the pavement in front of the former house of the victim.
By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives a private memorial to each victim.
His motto is: 'A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

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