Stumbling Stones Monsterstraat 6

Stolpersteine / Stumbling stones
for
* Isaac Elsbach, born 1864, deported 3 September 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 6 September 1944, Auschwitz.
* Rachel Elsbach-de Rooy, born 1867, deported 3 September 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 6 September 1944, Auschwitz.
* Selma Gutmann, born 1879, deported 3 September 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 6 September 1944, Auschwitz.

Isaac Elsbach was killed at age 80, his wife Rachel de Rooy (sometimes spelled de Rooij) at 76. They did not appear to have had children together. A son with his first wife was killed in Central Europe in 1943.

Selma Gutmann’s story, in Joods Monument, may be the story for the Elsbach couple as well: Selma was living in a home for the elderly, was picked up by Jew-hunters on 4 August and taken to Westerbork four days later.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small 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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