Stumbling Stones Walstraat 46 (now Walstraat 48)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Levie Wolff, born 1896, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 15 April 1943, Annaberg, Poland.* Cato Wolff-van Baaren, born 1897, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Betje Ester Wolff, born 1924, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Henriette Wolff, born 1927, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.

Levie Wolff, a butcher, married Cato van Baaren. They had 2 daughters. All four were deported from Westerbork on the same day. Cato and their 2 teen-age daughters were killed in Auschwitz 3 days later. Levie lived 6 additional months and died in Annaberg, Poland.

Levie was apparently an only child. His father Jacob Wolff was killed in Sobibor in 1943; no information was seen about the death of his mother Bet Schlosser.

Cato’s mother Esther Andriesse died before the war came to the Netherlands; her father Israel van Baaron died in Boxmeer in 1941. No information was seen about the death of Louis, her only sibling alive at the beginning of the war.

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: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder