Stumbling Stone Oude Zijlvest 43

This memorial stone (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorates:

Hartog Paardebek

The small copper plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

In many other cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, the memorials also can be found. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still counting. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

HARTOG HORSEBANK
August 31st, 1893 (Haarlem) - December 16th, 1944 (Neuengamme)
OLD SIDE VEST 43
Hartog Paardebek was the youngest child of merchant Marcus Paardebek. After the early death of his father (in 1908), he became the breadwinner of the family at an early age, which gave him exemption from the army.
Hartog had a wholesale business in textile articles and rags in Haarlem. In 1920 he married the non-Jewish Maria Theresia Josephina van Gorp. They had one child: Marcus (Max) Paardebek, who survived the war. After the war, he re-established and continued his father's textile business.
Hartog probably went into hiding and was betrayed. In any case, he ended up in camp Vught in 1944 as a criminal case. He was probably deported from camp Vught to Auschwitz with the last transport on 3 June 1944 and from Auschwitz to Neuengamme.
Transport from camp Vught to Auschwitz on 3 June 1944.
Murdered in Neuengamme on December 16, 1944.
He was 51 years old.

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Source

• Text: Reini Elkerbout
• Photos: Reini Elkerbout