Stumbling Stones Nieuwe Prinsengracht 23

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

Here in Amsterdam two Stumbling Stones were laid in 2023 for:

WILLEM ARTHUR MENDES DA COSTA, murdered on Deceember 2, 1944 in Dachau.

JUDITH ANNA MENDES DA COSTA-PALACHE, succumbed on May 31, 1945 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