Stumbling Stones Houtstraat 14

Stolpersteine / Stumbling stones
for
* Jacob Goldsmid, born 1877, deported 11 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Regina Goldsmid-Van Dijk, born 1883, deported 11 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Clara Wilhelmina Goldsmid, born 1909, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.

Jacob Goldsmid and his wife Regina Goldsmid-van Dijk had two daughters – Johanna (b. 1905) and Clara Wilhelmina. He was a chazzan – a prayer leader – in Oss. He was well respected there and the Jewish community flourished.

Jacob and Regina were deported on the same day to Sobibor and both were killed three days later. Their daughter Clara Wilhelmina was deported a month later, also to Sobibor and killed three days later. Another daughter, Johanna van Thijn-Goldsmid, was murdered with her husband in Auschwitz in January 1944. Their stolpersteine are at Dr. Hermanslaan 24 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."

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed -- on 29 November 2007.

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