Stumbling Stone Zandstraat 1

These brass memorial plaque (Stolpersteine or stumbling stone), placed on 22-12-2024 commemorates:

PETRUS MARTINUS VERHASSELT (born 1894, resistance fighter, betrayed 26-9-1944 Gennep, murdered 12-3-1945 Buchenwald).

This Stolperstein is here for a resistance fighter, deported and murdered in World War II. Petrus ‘Pierre’ Verhasselt resisted the occupying forces and sheltered people in hiding. He was betrayed and died 2 weeks before liberation in Buchenwald.

"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 sidewalk in front of a residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the name of the victim, date of birth and the fate of these people. 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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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Familie Verhasselt
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