Stumbling Stones Heuvel 32 (now Heuvel 6)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Henri Hes, born 1886, deported 11 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Eva Hes-vanDijk, born 1888, deported 11 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Alexander Hes, born 1919, deported 4 September 1942 from Westerbork, died 31 March 1944, Central Europe.

Henri Hes, a tailor and Eva van Dijk had 3 children. Alexander, who had started his studies in pharmacy in 1936, is above. The other two children survived: Rosina Hes (1921-2007) and Samuel Hes (1924-1990).

Henri’s father Samuel died before the war; his mother Rosina Zilverenberg died in Oss in 1942.

Henri and his 6 siblings who were alive in Oss at the beginning of the war were all killed in the Holocaust and have stolpersteine: Albert David Hes (1943 Sobibor – see Ridderstraat 58), Henri Zvi Hes (1943 Sobibor – above), Dina Anna Hes (1943 Sobibor – see Spoorlaan 22), Hugo Daniel Hes (1944 Auschwitz – see Heuvel 79), Antje Hes (1942 Auschwitz – see Spoorlaan 52), Helena Hes (1942 Auschwitz – see Floraliastraat 65) and Meijer Hes (1943 Auschwitz – see Hermanslaan 1, Oss).

Eva’s parents died before the war. Of their 8 children, 1 died in 1880, 2 were killed in the Holocaust in 1943 (Eva - above - and Isaac), 3 survived the war and information is unknown for the 2 others.

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries.
It reminds the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, in which the name, date of birth and decease and also place of decease is punched into.
The Stolperstein gets a place in the pavement in front of the former house of the victim.
By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives a private 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.
This happened the 29-11-2007.

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder
• Joods Monument
• Geni.com