Stumbling Stone Spoorlaan 80

Second World War (1939-1945)

Netherlands, the North Brabant Oss

This memorial stone (Stolperstein, stumbling block, struikelsteen) commemorates:
* Leo Hartogs, born 1878, deported 31 July 1944, murdered 15 March1945, Bergen-Belsen.

Leo (Levi) Hartogs was employed by the Zwanenberg company in Oss as a personnel manager. His first wife, Hedwig Hartogs-Koopmann, with whom he had two daughters, died in 1935.

On 6 January 1942 Leo Hartogs married Helena Sibilla Koopman. She survived.

One of Leo’s children from his first marriage – Rosa Diena Leo Hartogs (b. 1907) survived until age 88, but their other daughter -- Diena van der Sluis-Hartogs -- her husband, and their two children were all 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 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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