Stumbling Stones Heuvel 81 (now Hooghuisstraat 15)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Bartha Leviticus-Woudstra, born 1883, deported 3 September 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 6 September 1944, Auschwitz.
* Henriëtte Betsij Leviticus, born 1914, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 3 September 1942, Auschwitz.
* David Mozes Leviticus, born 1917, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Furstengrube, Poland.
* Bruno Gerst, born 1878, deported 9 February 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 12 February 1943, Auschwitz.

Bartha Woudstra married Abraham Leviticus in 1911. They lived at this Oss address, where Abraham died in 1940 at age 58. Bartha and their children -- Henriëtte Betsij, age 28 and David Mozes, age 25 – did not survive the Holocaust.

Of Bartha’s 7 siblings alive at the beginning of the war, only 4 survived the war. Neither of Abraham Leviticus’s siblings alive at the beginning of the war survived the Holocaust.

Bruno Gerst was a merchant, killed at age 64. No information was found about his family.

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
• Joodsmonument.nl