This small brass plaque (Stolperstein or Stumbling Stone), placed on 18-10-2023, commemorate:
Rachel de Leeuw, born 1885, deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 2-2-1943 and murdered there on 5-2-1942.
Ernst Friedrich Meijer, born 1906, fled Düsseldorf in 1933, deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz in 1942 and murdered there on 30-9-1942.
"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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