Stumbling Stone Egmondstraat 4

This small brass plaque (Stolperstein or Stumbling Stone), placed on 17-04-2024, commemorate:

Leo Hillel van Herzfeld, born 1914, interned on 12-12-1942 in Westerbork and from there deported to Auschwitz on 16-2-1943 and murdered there on 30-4-1943.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a Concentration Camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Arjan Hell
• https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/40455/egmondstraat-4-velp