Stumbling Stone Swolgenseweg 23

This small brass plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), laid here on 29-9-2019 commemorates:

Victor David van Wezel, born 1934, went into hiding at this address, arrested 1-8-1944 and murdered in Auschwitz on 18-10-1944.

Victor David van Wezel was among more than a hundred Jewish children who were housed by the Amsterdam Student Group in Tienray and its surroundings in northern Limburg. Five of them - including Victor - were arrested during a raid on 1 August 1944.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate 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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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Frank Overman