Stumbling Stones Markveien 28

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

* Samuel Dabrosin, born 1897, deported 1942, Auschwitz, killed 16.2.1943.
* Lina Dabrosin née Kirbel, born 1891, deported 1942, Auschwitz, killed 1.12.1942.
* Adolf Kraast, born 1890, born 1890, deported 1942, Auschwitz, killed 1.12.1942.

Background

Samuel Dabrosin, a wood carver treskjaerer and painter, and Lina Kirbel married in 1910. It is not clear where they met or where they married, but she moved to Oslo in 1910. Their three children were all born in Oslo – Aron (1913), Jakob ("Jake" 1915), and Rosa (1921). They lived on the 3rd floor of the four-story apartment building here at Markveien 28. Samuel created the marketry work on the cabinet for the Torah in the old synagogue; parts of that work are now on display at the Oslo Jewish Museum. On 26 October 1942, Samuel was arrested and held at the Bredveit prison / concentration camp in Oslo for 2 days until he was taken to the Berg work camp.

Adolf Kraast was a painter and a firefighter. He and Rakel Lea Meirowsky married and had two daughters – Nora Ida (b. 1923) and Bertha (1925). The family lived in an apartment on the first floor. No other information was found until his arrest on 26 October 1942.

As part of an effort to remove Jews from Norway, Samuel and Lina Dabrosin and Adolf Kraast were deported on 26 November 1942 on the SS Danau to Poland. The ship docked at Stettin on 30 November, and the "passengers" were put on a train to Auschwitz. Selection on arrival was 186 persons for slave labor and 346 for the gas chambers. Samuel Dabrosin was selected for work at the Birkenau subcamp; he survived until February 1943. Lina Dabrosin and Adolph Kraast were murdered on arrival at Auschwitz.

The three Dabrosin children, and Rakel Lea Kraast and the two Kraast daughters all escaped to Sweden.

"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 victim’s with the 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: MIgracionTOtal
• Dagsavisen: story about Dabrosins (in Norwegian)
• Haaretz.com: Deportations from Oslo, 26 November 1942
• Oslo Byleksikon: Markveien
• VareFalne: Lina Dabrosin
• Stolpersteine.eu