Stumbling Stones Waldwarsstraat 6 (now Oostwal 183)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Julie Meier-Heijman, born 1872, deported 13 April 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 16 April 1943, Sobibor.
* Robert Meier, born 1901, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Fürstengrube, Poland.
* Ilse Meier-Gans, born 1904, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 3 September 1942, Auschwitz.

These 3 persons lived at the same address in Oss and are included with the spelling "Meijer" in the Joods Monument as victims of the Nazis, but little information was found about them or their relationship to each other. By age and name, Julie could have been Robert’s mother or aunt and Ilse could have been his wife.

Fürstengrube was the name of a coal mine 30km from Auschwitz. It became a formal Auschwitz sub-camp in 1943 (after Robert was killed).

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm 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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