Stumbling Stones Peperstraat 8

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Maurits Zilverberg, born 1910, deported 16 November 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 22 March 1944, Central Europe.
* Rosalina Zilverberg, born 1942, detained 1943 Vught, died 17 April 1943, Vught.
* Johanna Zilverberg-Pagrach, born 1914, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.

When Maurits Zilverberg lost his job in 1942, he volunteered for a work camp under the assumption that by doing so his family would be spared. His wife Johanna Pagrach (called Jo) was pregnant and delivered baby Rosalina in early October. She returned to Peperstraat but then went to live with her brother-in-law Henri Zilverberg, his wife Rosetta and their baby Emma at Molenstraat 143. In the spring of 1943, the families were taken for forced labor and sent to Camp Vught. There, poor conditions including disease caused baby Rosalina’s death in April at age 6 months. Jo, Rosetta and baby Emma were transferred to Westerbork. They were then deported to Sobibor and killed – first Jo, then Rosetta and baby Emma. Henri himself was killed there 11 June 1943. Stolpersteine for Henri, Rosetta and Emma are at Molenstraat 143 in Oss.

Maurits himself survived into the next year and was killed in Central Europe in 1944.

Maurits’ and Henri’s sister, Betsij Meijer-Zilverberg and her two daughters were killed on the same day in Auschwitz in 1943 and her husband was killed there 2 months later. Their stolpersteine are in Zwijndrecht, at Da Costastraat 35.

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries. They commemorate the victims of the National Socialism (Nazism)

A Stolperstein is a 10cm concrete cube with a brass plate on top, on which the name, year of birth and date and place of death are engraved. Stolpersteine are placed in the pavement in front of the last residence where the victims lived by choice.

By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim.
His motto is: '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
• Stilstaan bij de Strukelstenen in Oss, p.16
• Joods Monument