Stumbling Stones Lange Hofstraat 26

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
Henri Koppel (born 1899, murdered 17.7.1942 Mauthausen)
Billa Koppel-Zeligman (born 1888, murdered 11.6.1943 Sobibor)
Jacob Jacques Koppel (born 1922, murdered 30.4.1943 Auschwitz)
Betti Koppel (born 1924, intered 7.4.1943, 'Philips Kommando' 26.7.1943, deported from Vught 3.6.1944, Auschwitz Gross-Rosen liberated)

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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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Arjan Hell