Stumbling Stone Buys Ballotstraat 5

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

* MARKUS DE BRUIN, born 1882, deported September 14, 1942 from Westerbork, murdered on September 17, 1942 in Auschwitz.

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

"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
• Markus de Bruin, Joodsmonument