Stumbling Stones Minnebroederstraat 4

These small, brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* Maurits Samuël de Jong, born 1920, deported 8/9 April 1943 from Vught, murdered 16 July 1943, Sobibor.
* Annie Rozet de Jong-Wijnman, born 1922, deported 8/9 April 1943 from Vught, murdered 16 July 1943, Sobibor.

Maurits Samuël de Jong, a teacher, and Annie Wijnman were engaged in 1942. They apparently married before they were killed in Sobibor. No children are recorded.

His parents and 3 brothers were taken from Oss and killed; their stolpersteine are at Ridderstraat 29.

Annie’s parents – Wolf Wijnman and Reina Wignman-Cohen -- were killed on 23 April 1943 in Sobibor. Her only sibling – brother Solomon Wijnman, born 1924 – was killed on 7 December 1942 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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