Stumbling Stones Heuvel 93 (now Hooghuisstraat 27)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Marcus Jacob de Vries, born 1895, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1943, Auschwitz.
* Marinus Herman de Jongh, born 1907, deported 7 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 30 September 1942, Auschwitz.
* Ernst Israël Hirsch, born 1916, deported 17 August 1944 from Drancy, murdered 1 April 1945, Bergen-Belsen.

There is no indication that any of these 3 men were married.

Marcus Jacob de Vries was a butcher. His sisters were Mina de Vries (born 1894, killed in Auschwitz 21jan43) and Selma de Vries (born 1899, killed in Sobibor 23 April 1943 with her 2 sons; her husband died before the war).

Marinus Herman de Jongh was an administrative assistant at Organon’s printed matter center until 1942, when he was fired for being Jewish. His parents, who lived in Amsterdam [Roompotstraat 3 huis] were both killed at Auschwitz on 24 September 1943. Two of their 3 children survived. However, his aunts and uncles on both his mother’s and his father’s sides were killed 1942-1943.

Starting in 1942, Ernst Israël Hirsch, codename "Willy", was active in the underground, organizing Dutch networks for assisting Dutch "Palestine Pioneers" to escape to Palestine. He was practical and well-liked. But he was betrayed and then arrested in April 1944.

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
• Stilstaan bij de Struikelstenen in Oss, p.26