Stumbling Stones Koornstraat 7

Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones
for
* Israel De Vries, born 1886, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 3 September 1942 Auschwitz.
* Sara De Vries-De Beer, born 1890, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 3 September 1942 Auschwitz.
* Aron De Vries, born 1917, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Fürstengrube, Pszcyna, Poland.
* Josephina De Vries, born 1933, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered murdered 3 September 1942 Auschwitz.
* Ganna De Vries, born 1930, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered murdered 3 September 1942 Auschwitz.
* Alexander De Vries, born 1920, deported 17 August 1942 from Rijkswerkkamp, murdered 30 September 1942 Auschwitz.
* Ella De Vries, born 1924, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered murdered 3 September 1942 Auschwitz.

Israel De Vries, a butcher and Sara De Beer married and had five children – Aron, Josephina, Ganna, Alexander and Ella.

Son Alexander, a baker, had been taken to a government work camp, from which he was deported in mid-August 1942, probably via Westerbork to Auschwitz, where he was killed 6 weeks later.

The six other members of this household were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on the same day at the end of August 1942. They and over 500 others had to walk from the Westerbork camp to the railway station where they were put on a passenger train. En route, all males ages 15-50 were ordered off the train in Cosel and sent to work as slave laborers. Aron may have been one of those. The train then continued, reaching Auschwitz the next day. Two days later, all the remaining passengers were murdered.

Daughter Ella worked as a housekeeper. In early 1942, she went to work in Den Bosch; in August she returned to her family in Oss and then was deported to her death with them.

"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 Deportation Database: Westerbork-Auschwitz
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu