Stumbling Stones Kruisstraat 66 (now opp. Kruisstraat 35)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Simon Leverpoll, born 1892, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 31 July 1943, Bobrek, Poland.
* Jetta Leverpoll-van Tijn, born 1894, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Rosa Jansje Leverpoll, born 1932, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Jansje Mietje Leverpoll, born 1935, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.

Simon Leerpoll, a merchant, his wife Jetta van Tijn and their two daughters, Rose Jansje age 10 and Jansje Mietje age 7, were all deported to Auschwitz on the same day. Simon was selected to work. His wife and daughters were murdered the day after arrival.

He was killed 9 months later in Bobrek, a nearby village, where a small group of prisoners was forced to regulate the Wisła river, build roads and load shipments. That small work camp was liquidated in February 1943; where those prisoners were sent is unknown and why Simon Leverpoll was still there in July is unknown. (The following year -- after Simon was murdered -- an existing synthetic fertilizer plant there was turned into an Auschwitz subcamp called Bobrek.)

Simon’s brother, Meier Leverpoll (born 1890), was killed in Mauthausen in 1941, while his sister survived.

Only one of Jetta’s 3 siblings was alive at the beginning of WW2, but he, Arie Abraham van Tijn (born 1886), was killed in 1944 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."

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

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder
• Joods Monument
• Geni.com
• Foundation of Memory Sites near Auschwitz-Birkenau: Bobrek
• Stolpersteine.eu