Stumbling Stones Molenstraat 80

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES for:
* Nanni Kahn, born 1884, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Siegfried Kahn, born 1892, deported 21 April 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 30 September 1944, Auschwitz.
* Matilde Kahn-Hirnheimer, born 1893, deported 21 April 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 6 October 1944, Auschwitz.
* Nathan Gabriel Kahn, born 1927, deported 18 January 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1944, Central Europe.
* Suse Kahn, born 1929, deported 18 January 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1944, Central Europe.

Siegfried Kahn, a butcher and his wife Matilde Kahn-Hirnheimer emigrated from Burgpreppach, Germany, to Oss, Netherlands, in 1933, where their children Nathan and Suse were born. The parents were deported first to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. Nine months later, the children -- still teenagers -- were deported on the same day and were killed 10 days later somewhere in Central Europe.

Nanni (or Nany) Kahn was related to Siegfried according to Joods Monument, but the relationship isn’t clear. She was born in the same town as Siegfried (Burgpreppach) and she emigrated to the Netherlands in 1939 and was living with Siegfried’s family in 1942.

Information on Siegfried Kahn’s parents and siblings was not seen.

Matilde Kahn-Hirnheimer’s father died in 1933. Her mother, Githa Hirnheimer-Hirnheimer, was killed at Sobibor; a stolperstein for her is at Ridderstraat 38 in Oss. Her brother Josef Hirnheimer (1904-1943), a shopkeeper who was in the resistance and her sister, Estrea Hirnheimer (1897-1944), a nurse, were also killed in the Holocaust.

"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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder
• US Holocaust Memorial Museum Database
• JoodsMonument.nl
• Stolpersteine.eu