Stumbling Stones Pastoorstraat 18

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for:
JOHANNA COHEN, Born 1914, murdered 19-10-1942, Auschwitz
IZAK COHEN, Born 1934, murdered 19-10-1942, Auschwitz
KAATJE COHEN, Born 1938, murdered 19-10-1942, Auschwitz
SALOMON COHEN, Born 1910, murdered 12-3-1945, Buchenwald
SIMON COHEN, Born 1913, murdered 31-3-1944, Blechhammer
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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'.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Arjan Hell