Stumbling stone resistance fighter Gustaaf Wauters Turnhout

This small brass plaque (Stolpersteine or trip stones), laid here on 12-5-2024 commemorates: Gustaaf Wauters.

From mid-June 1943 until his arrest, Gustaaf Wauters (°Turnhout Jan. 9, 1904) was provincial head of the B.N.B., paper merchant and librarian in charge of the escape network. Gustaaf Wauters was arrested through the betrayal of his sister-in-law Stella Peeraer on Feb. 7, 1944. He remains in the prisons of Antwerp and Saint-Gilles. August is executed on Jan. 31, 1945 at Sonnenburg in Germany, today Poland.

The stone is located where the Turnhout library used to stand.

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• Text: Jhonny Bastiaensen
• Photos: Jhonny Bastiaensen