Stumbling Stones Kazernestraat 6

Stolpersteine / Stumbling stones
for
* Esther Koster-Silverenberg, born 1864, deported 3 September 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 6 September 1944, Auschwitz.
* Rosa Silverenberg, born 1905, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 3 September 1942, Auschwitz.

Esther Koster-Silverenberg’s husband died before WW1. Her brother, Theodore Silverenberg (Rosa’s father), was killed in Auschwitz in 1942. Esther was killed there two years later at age 79.

Rosa Silverenberg was a sales person. Her mother died before the war; her father was killed in Auschwitz; and 6 of her 11 brothers and sisters are known to have been 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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