Stumbling Stones Grotestraat 167

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES

HERE LIVED
LION DE HAAS BORN 1869
CAROLINA DE HAAS-POLAK BORN 1870
SIMON BERTUS DE HAAS BORN 1901
HELENA DE HAAS-POLAK BORN 1870
UNDERGROUNDED IN BORNE
DEPORTED 1944 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1944 IN AUSCHWITZ

HERE LIVED
FRE COHEN
UNDERGROUND IN BORNE
BETRAYEL
FLED INTO DEATH 1943

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district. Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries. It reminds the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, in which the name, date of birth and decease and also place of decease is punched into. The Stolperstein gets a place in the pavement in front of the former house of the victim.
By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives a private memorial to each victim.
His motto is: 'A HUMAN BEING IS ONLY FORGOTTEN WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed. This happened on 29-11-2007.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.com
• Photos: Sebastiaan Kamphuis
• Struikelstenen.nl