Stumbling Stone Kuipersstraat 89A

This small, brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorate:

* WILLY DE LEEUW, born 1924, deported January 22, 1943 from the 'Apeldoornsche Bosch', murdered on Januaarr 25, 1943 in Auschwitz.

This Stumbling Stone is here for a Jewish war victim deported and murdered in the Second World War.

Willy de Leeuw was admitted to the Apeldoornse Bosch, an institution founded in 1909 by the ‘Vereeniging Centraal Israëlietisch Krankzinnigengesticht in Nederland’ (Association of Central Israelite Mental Institutions in the Netherlands).

In the night of Thursday 21 to Friday 22 January 1943, patients of the Jewish psychiatric institution Het Apeldoornsche Bosch, sometimes naked, confused or in straitjackets, were taken in trucks by units of the SS and the Ordnungspolizei under the personal command of Hauptsturmführer Ferdinand aus der Fünten of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (assisted by Albert Konrad Gemmeker, the SS commander of Camp Westerbork) to a freight train waiting at Apeldoorn station.

The train left Amersfoort station at 7 a.m. on the morning of January 22, 1943, and took the 1,080 patients and 51 staff members directly to Auschwitz.

"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 the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is punched 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: Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne
• WILLY DE LEEUW, joodsmonument.nl
• Het Apeldoornsche Bosch, joodsmonument.nl
• Ontruiming Apeldoornsche Bosch, joodsmonument.nl
• Het Apeldoornsche Boschtransport van 22 januari 1943, Historiek.net