Stumbling Stones Hoogstraat 208

These small brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on 27 January, 2024, commemorate:
-Szyja SUKNIK (born 1900 in Warsaw, arrested 19-8-1943, deported via Mechelen to Auschwitz on 20-9-1943, returned on 1-6-1945)
-Abraham Adolphe NASIELSKI (born 1915 in Warsaw, deported via Mechelen on 4-8-1942, murdered in 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 a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved 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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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck