Stumbling Stone Pres. Steijnstraat 91rd

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for:
Marianne Hansen-Winnink

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.

Marianne Hansen Winnink
January 23rd, 1881 (Amsterdam) - June 4th, 1943 (Sobibor)

Marianne (Marianna) Winnink was born on January 23, 1881 in Amsterdam. Her father, Hijman Winnink, was registered as a diamond merchant and also as a cigar maker, two professions often practiced in Jewish Amsterdam. Her mother was Branca Speijer, also born in Amsterdam. Seven children were born into the Winnink-Speijer family, two of whom died at a young age. Marianne thus became the eldest of the five children to reach adulthood. Of these five, Joseph and Elisabeth died well before the war. Marianne, her sister Flora and brother Isaac were killed in Auschwitz and Sobibor.

Around 1897 Marianne worked as a maid. A few years later, in April 1901, she left Amsterdam for Antwerp, but a year later she was back in Amsterdam. Her illegitimate daughters Esther and Hermina Winnink were born there on July 17, 1903 and November 8, 1904. In 1909 several family members, including Marianne and her children, left for Borgerhout near Antwerp. In 1915 she and her daughters were back in Amsterdam and Marianne worked as a nurse. In September 1921 Marianne left for Haarlem. There, on October 26 of that year, she married 42-year-old Jan Hansen, a divorced 'municipal worker' at the city cleaning department in Haarlem and father of four children from previous marriages. Marianne herself was then 40 years old and settled with her husband in a house at 4 Melkboersteeg. Her daughter Hermina came with Marianne; Esther was not registered with the family of Jan Hansen and Marianne Winnink and would marry Willem Antonie de Waal in 1924 in Heusden.

The marriage between Marianne and Jan Hansen did not last very long because Jan Hansen died in December 1929. The couple then lived on Bantamstraat in Haarlem because in May of that year the house on Melkboersteeg was demolished. In 1939 Marianne, then the widow J. Hansen-Winnink, lived in the Indischestraat and in 1942 in the President Steijnstraat 91 Rood in the Transvaalbuurt in Haarlem-Noord. From this last address, Marianne was transferred to camp Westerbork, where she was registered on 21 May 1943. On 1 June 1943 she was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor, where she was probably killed immediately upon arrival.

Transport from Westerbork 1 June 1943.
Killed in Sobibor on or about June 4th, 1943.

She was 62 years old.