Stumbling Stones Dorpsstraat 152

This brass plaque (Stolperstein or tripstone), commemorates:

ARMAND NOE LEVITICUS (born 1903, fled to England, arrested 1943 St. Gillis, murdered 28-2-1945 Mittelbau-Dora)

Armand Leviticus was a Catholic baptised Jew from Heythuysen. In May 1942, together with five British ‘pilots’, he tried to reach England via Belgium, France and Spain. However, he was arrested near Paris. He was able to hide his Jewish identity but the presence of the British made him suspected of espionage. As a political prisoner, he ended up in a series of concentration camps: Gross-Strelitz, Grosz-Rosen and finally in the Mittelbau-Dora camp where V2 rockets were assembled in underground tunnels. There he died of exhaustion in February 1945.

‘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 of the Nazis. Each plaque bears the victim's name, date of birth and their fate. 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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