Stumbling Stones Walstraat 30

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Gaston Léon Diependaal, born 1905, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.
* Jetje Diependaal-den Arend, born 1906, deported 29 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 2 July 1943, Sobibor.
* Leentje den Arend-van Vlies, born 1870, deported 11 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Joseph (Jopie) Diependaal, born 1931, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.
* Salomon Arnold Diependaal, born 1936, deported 29 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 2 July 1943, Sobibor.

Gaston Diependaal and Jetje den Arend married in 1930 and had two sons. The four plus Jetje’s mother (Leentje) lived at Walstraat 30. Leentje, age 73, was deported and killed first – in May 1943.

Next, Gaston Diependaal and their older son Jopie (age 12) were deported together and killed 3 days later in mid-June. Finally, Jetje Diependaal-den Arend and their younger son Salomon (age 7) were deported together at the end of June and killed 3 days later.

Gaston Leon’s brother, Jacques Henri Diependaal at Floraliastraat 65 was killed in Auschwitz, 1943. The fate of their sister Olga Catharina Diependaal (born 1896) is unknown. Their parents died before the war.

Records show that 6 of Leentje’s children died in childhood before the war. Jetje and one of her sisters were killed in the Holocaust; the fates of 3 other siblings are unknown.

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