Stumbling Stones Wilhelminastraat (was De Grint 62)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES

HERE LIVED
ISAREL SALOMON JAKOBS
BORN 1875
MURDERED AUSCHWITZ
26-10-1942

HERE LIVED
GONDA COHEN
BIRTHED 1874
MURDERED AUSCHWITZ
29-10-1942

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 FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed. This happened the 29-11-2007.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.com
• Photos: Hans Sijtsma