Stumbling Stone Hoofdstraat 100

Several Stolpersteine were placed in Veenendaal in 2023.

This Stolperstein is in memory of

Emilie Zippora Prins, age 70.

She was born on May 4th, 1873 in Amsterdam. She was a housekeeper in Veenendaal since 1928. She lived in the house of Mr. Van Essen, where she did the housekeeping. When Mr. Van Essen died on April 23th, 1943, she had to move. She moved to Houtmarkt 10 in Amsterdam. There she was arrested not much later on May 15th 1943 and taken to camp Westerbork.

On May 18th, 1943, she was deported from camp Westerbork to Sobibor extermination camp in eastern Poland, which was then entirely occupied by NAZI Germany. 3 days later, on May 21st, 1943, she was murdered by the Germans.

Emilie Zippora Prins is also commemorated on the Monument to the Fallen in Veenendaal, from 1951.

See also the Stolpersteine in memory of Simon Levi van Essen and of Anna van Essen-Koetser in the Hoofdstraat 42, and of Abraham Levis van Essen en Emma van Essen-Frankenstein in the hoofdstraat 53.

Stolpersteine are an initiative since 1997 by German artist Gunter Demnig. He began by placing the first Stolperstein in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district. Since then, there have been placed Stolpersteine in many countries.

The stones are a reminder of the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a 10 x 10 cm concrete stone, brass at the top in which the name, date of birth and death and place of death is stamped. The Stolperstein is placed in the sidewalk in front of the victim's former home.

Gunter Demnig in that way provided each victim his own monument. His motto is: "A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN".

The village of Borne was the first place in the Netherlands where Stolpersteine were placed on November 29th, 2007.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Marcel Wijnstok
• https://www.joodsmonument.nl
• https://www.oorlogsgravenstichting.nl