Stumbling Stones Rue Haute 47-49

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on 1-9-2017, commemorate:

* JACOB ROZENBLUM (born 1892 Poland, interned Mechelen 25-3-1942, deported 1944, Auschwitz murdered)
* RUCHA-ROSA KIERSZ (born 1892 Poland, interned Mechelen 25-3-1942, deported 1944, Auschwitz murdered)
* JOSEF GURFINKEL (born 1908 Poland, arrested 22-7-1942, interned Breendonk Mechelen, deported 1942 Auschwitz-Birkenau, survived)
* MARIA ROSENBLUM (born 1922 Germany, arrested 23-3-1944, interned Mechelen 25-3-1944, deported 1944, survived Auschwitz)
* ELIAS MAX ROSENBLUM (born 1925 Germany, arrested 23-3-1944, interned Mechelen, deported 1944, Auschwitz Mauthausen, murdered April 1945)
* BENJAMIN BIBERSZTEIN (born 1900 Poland, arrested May 1942, forced labour 1942, Atlantic Wall, interned Mechelen, deported 31-10-1942, escaped convoy XVI
* ANNA ROSENBLUM (born 1927, interned Mechelen 25-3-1944, deported 1944, murdered Auschwitz)
* DAVID ISRAEL ROZENBLUM (born 1926, arrested 23-3-1944, interned Mechelen 25-3-1944, deported 1944, Auschwitz Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen Ebensee liberated)

These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

"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: Marie-Christine Vinck