Stumbling Stones Garenkokerskade 92

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorates:

DAVID BAREND
ANDRIES STODEL

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.

DAVID BAREN
March 22nd, 1899 (Amsterdam) - May 15th, 1940 (Haarlem)
GARENKOKERSKADE 92
David Barend was the third in a family of seven children from Amsterdam. He was a merchant. In 1920 he married Margaretha Stein, ten years his senior, in Amsterdam, with whom he had a daughter, Henriette Elisabeth (29-1-1921). In November 1921 they divorced. Margaretha Stein and her daughter Henriette were murdered in 1943 in Sobibor and camp Trawniki. They were 53 and 22 years old.
In 1922, David Barend remarried Rosetta Mendels, who was almost 15 years her senior. They lived, together with Andries Stodel and his family, in Haarlem at 92 Garenokkenskade and had an adopted daughter, Alida Rosette Jacob. She was the daughter of David's younger sister Frederika, who died a month after Alida was born (in 1926). Alida (nickname Lida) was lovingly raised by David and Rosetta until war broke out in May 1940.
After the Dutch capitulation on May 15, 1940, David Barend and his housemate Andries Stodel took their own lives by gas asphyxiation. Rosetta Barend-Mendels and their adopted daughter survived this attempted suicide. Rosetta died in Hilversum in 1942 (aged 57); Alida Rosette Jacob was murdered in 1943 in Sobibor (17 years old).
Fled in death on May 15, 1940.
He was 41 years old.

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Source

• Text: Reini Elkerbout
• Photos: Reini Elkerbout