Stumbling Stones Dr Hermanslaan 1

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Meijer Hes, born 1899, deported 21 September 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 24 September 1943, Auschwitz.
* Truitje Hes-Parfumeur, born 1903, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.
* Louis Hes, born 1928, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.
* Rose-Marie Hes, born 1938, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.

Meijer Max Hes was married to Truitje Hes-Parfumeur. Louis Samuel Hes and Rose-Marie Hes were their children. Truitje and the children (ages 14 amd 7) were deported together and killed on arrival at Sobibor. Meijer was deported 3 months later and killed on arrival at Auschwitz.

Meijer Hes’s father died before the war, his mother died in 1942 in Oss. Meijer Hes was one of 9 siblings, 2 of whom died before the war and the other 7, including him, were killed in the Holocaust: Albert David Hes (killed in Sobibor – see Ridderstraat 58), Henri Zvi Hes (killed 1943 Sobibor), Dina Anna Hes (-1943), Hugo Daniel Hes (killed 1944 Auschwitz), Antje Hes (killed 1942 Auschwitz – see Spoorlaan 52) and Helena Hes (killed 1942 Auschwitz).

Truitje Parfumeurs’s mother died in Oss before the war. Her father – Leman Hijman Parfumeur – was killed in Auschwitz in 1944 (see his stolperstein at Spoorlaan 32. Truitje had one sister, who also married a Hes: Betje Betsy Hes-Parfumeur (born 1899), married Truitje’s brother-in-law, Hugo Daniel Hes; both were killed in Auschwitz with their 7 children on 6 September 1944. (See Heuvel 79.)

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary 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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Fedor de Vries
• Joods Monument
• Stolpersteine.eu