Stumbling Stones Nieuweweg 6

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

* Salomon Heilbronn, born 1892, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 28 January 1943, Auschwitz.
* Helena Johanna R. Heilbronn-Menco, born 1899, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 21 April 1942 Auschwitz.
* Bertha Jenny Heilbronn, born 1926, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 22 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Sara Roos-Meijers, born 1862, interned Vught, murdered 30 April 1943.
- Josephine Vromen-Cohen, born 1863, deported to Westerbork, murdered 20.05.1943. [This stone is not yet installed.]

Background

Salomon Heilbronn was born in Anholt, Germany. His family moved from there to Lochem at some time between 1893 and 1899. He married Helena Johanns Rosalie Menco from Winterswijk. Their daughter, Bertha Jenny, was born in Lochem.

Also living at this house (for reasons unknown) were two elderly widows. Sara Roos-Meijers was the widow of Izak Levie Roos and the mother of Samuel Roos is remembered with his family with stolpersteine at their home at 138862,Markt 9 in Lochem. Sara Roos-Meijers was killed in the Vught camp. She was 80 years old.

Widow Josephine Vromen-Cohen’s husband died in 1925. They had 3 children who were killed in the Shoah. Son Mozes, who lived in Voorburd, was murdered in Central Europe in 1943, and daughter Cato Leverpoll-Vromen, who lived in Lochem, was murdered in Sobibor in 1943. Son Salomon Vromen and his family are remembered with stolpersteine at 138505,Bierstraat 2 in Lochem. Josephine Vromen-Cohen was murdered in Westerbork transit camp on 20 May 1943. She was 79.

"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: Arjan Hell
• Joods Monument
• Stichting Stolpersteine Lochem
• Stolpersteine.eu