Stumbling Stones Newtonstraat 23

'A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS NAME IS FORGOTTEN'
(Talmud)

Here in Amsterdam three Stumbling Stones were laid on November 8, 2021 for:

JUDA ALEXANDER POLAK, murdered on October 26, 1942 in Auschwitz.

SOPHIA POLAK-HEERTJE, murdered on May 21, 1943 in Sobibor.

JOSEPH AUGUST JEAN POLAK, murdered on September 30, 1944 in Auschwitz.

These Stumbling Stones are here for Jewish war victims, deported and murdered in the Second World War.

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne