Stumbling Stones Heuvel 86 (now Hooghuisstraat 4)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Maurits Zilverberg, born 1898, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 31 August 1943, Auschwitz.
* Nathan Zilverberg, born 1901, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Fürstengrube, Poland.

Brothers Maurits and Nathan Zilverberg were both Oss merchants in their 40’s. Their sister, Julia den Hartog-Zilverberg, her husband and their 3 children were also killed in the Holocaust. Their stolpersteine are at Peperstraat 5, Oss.

Maurits’s and Nathan’s parents survived the war by a few years. One other sibling may have survived.

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, on which the name, year of birth and date and place of death are engraved.
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.