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Stumbling Stones Van Gaesbekestraat 61

These 8 brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), which were laid on 30-09-2024, commemorates:

* FIEKA POTSDAMMER-LEZER (born 1896, gevlucht in de dood 15-05-1940, Voorburg)
* JEANNETTE POTSDAMMER (born 1918, gevlucht in de dood 15-05-1940, Voorburg)
* JOZEF POTSDAMMER (born 1919, gevlucht in de dood 15-05-1940, Voorburg)
* ELSJE POTSDAMMER (born 1921, gevlucht in de dood 18-05-1940, Voorburg)

After escaping into death, another family moved into this house.
* NICO COHEN (born 1905, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 30-09-1942, Auschwitz).
* VOGELINA COHEN-GOUDSMID (born 1898, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19-08-1942, Auschwitz).
* JACOB JOZEF VISSEL (born 1924, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 30-09-1942, Auschwitz).
* ADOLF COHEN (born 1932, deported 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19-08-1942, Auschwitz).

These Stumbling Stones are here for Jewish war victims deported and murdered in the Second World War.

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