Stumbling Stone Vondelstraat 24

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for
Sjoerd Bakker.

Bakker was gay and a successful tailor and costume designer. He made the police uniforms needed for the attack on the Amsterdam Population Register in 1943. Bakker also provided help to (Jewish) people in hiding. He was arrested for the attack on the Population Register. On 1 July 1943 he was shot in the dunes near Overveen and buried in a mass grave.

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'.

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed.
This happened the 29-11-2007.

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