Stumbling Stones Nieuwstraat 42

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Manuel van Spier, born 1880, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 16 April 1943, Sobibor.
* Henriette van Spier-Beem, born 1881, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 16 April 1943, Sobibor.
* Isak Abraham van Spier, born 1910, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 9 July 1943, Sobibor.
* Abraham van Spier, born 1912, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 24 January 1944, Auschwitz.

Manuel van Spier and Henrietta Beem married and had two sons, Isak and Abraham and a daughter Sanjen (who survived). Manuel and both his sons were rag dealers (lompenhandelaars).

Most deportations from Vught were routed through Westerbork. It is not known how long the van Spiers were held in Vught before being deported onward. Persons deported to Auschwitz had a chance to be selected for work (to survive a little longer); those deported to Sobibor were murdered directly.

A stolpersteine for Isak Abraham van Spier’s wife, Henriette van Spier-van Leeuwen is with stolpersteine for her parents and sister at Koornstraat 3 in Oss.

"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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Source

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