Stumbling Stones Petrus Hendrikszstraat 28

These small brass plaques (Stolpersteine or Stumbling Stones), laid here on 1-12-2022 commemorate:

Louis Benjamin van Dam, born 21-06-1901
Fanny Adelheid Helena van Dam-Wesly, born 07-02-1904
Jenny Elizabeth van Dam, born 11-07-1937
Benjamin Leonard Emile van Dam, born 28-05-1935

The family was rounded up on 3-10-1942 and deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz a few weeks later. Mother Fanny and the children were murdered there on 19-10-1942 immediately upon arrival. Father Louis died in the Extern Kommando Bobrek on 31-12-1942.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig commemorating victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (trip stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim's name, date of birth and place (usually a Concentration Camp) and date of death. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: "A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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