Stumbling Stones Koornstraat 1

Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones
for
* Israel Isaak Wolff, born 1905, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943 Fürstengrube, Poland.
* Manuel Wolff, born 1898, deported 19 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1943 Auschwitz.
* Leentje Wolff-Bierman, born 1896, deported 19 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 22 October 1942 Auschwitz.
* Annette Geertruide Wolff, born 1923, deported 6 July 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 9 July 1943 Sobibor.
* Hartog Abraham Wolff, born 1928, deported 19 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 22 October 1942 Auschwitz.

JM Manuel Wolff and Leentje Bierman were married and had two children, Annette (sometimes spelled Anette) and Hartog. = Israel Isaak Wolff was a relative.

Israel Wolff was deported first. He was taken 31 August 1942 on a train headed to Auschwitz. Males ages 15-50 were forced off the train at Cosel to become slave labor for Moesr Company. (The 560 deportees who remained on the train were all murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers.) At some point, Israel was apparently sent to work along with other men from Oss in Fürstengrube, a nearby coal mine. At that time, the mine used Soviet prisoners of war, Jewish slave laborers and forced laborers from the USSR. Israel Wolff, along with others from the Netherlands, was killed on 11 March 1943, five months before Fürstengrube became a formal Auschwitz sub-camp using forced labor from Auschwitz itself.

The 19 October transport that took Manuel Wolff, Leentje Wolff-Bierman, their son Hartog Wolff and over 1300 others arrived in Auschwitz on 21 October. Except for 497 men selected for work, all other deportees were murdered.

Daughter Annette Wolff was deported 9 months after her husband and children on a freight train with 2,416 others to Sobibor. None survived.

"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
• Yad Vashem Shoah Deportation Database
• Fürstengrube
• Stolpersteine.eu