Stumbling Stones Meent 24

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES

HERE LIVED
SALOMO FRANKENHEIM BORN 1901
AMALIA FALKENBURMILDENBERG BORN 1872
JOEL FALKENBURG BORN 1877
DEPORTED 1943 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1943 IN SOBIBOR

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