Stumbling Stones Rozenstraat 29

Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones remember:

* Markus Grunwerg, born 1903, deported 1 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 4 June 1943 Sobibor.
* Gittel Taube Grunwerg-Ziffer, born 1909, deported 1 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 4 June 1943 Sobibor.
* Gershon Grunwerg, born 1934, deported 1 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 4 June 1943 Sobibor.
* Anna Regina Grunwerg, born 1938, deported 1 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 4 June 1943 Sobibor.
* Szijja Froin Altszuler, born 1894, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943 Fürstengrube, Poland.

Little information was found on the Grunwerg family and Szijja Froin Altszuler.

Parents Markus Grunwerg and Fittel Taube Grunwerg-Ziffer and their young children Gershon (age 9) and Anna Regina (age 5) were all deported from Westerbork on the same day and murdered in Sobibor 3 days later.

Szijja was a merchant in his 40s who had a room at this address. No info on his family. He was deported a year earlier than the Grunwergs. He was deported from Westerbork first to Auschwitz and then, along with other men from Oss, was apparently sent to work in Fürstengrube, a nearby coal mine. At that time, the mine used Soviet prisoners of war, Jewish slave laborers and forced laborers from the USSR. Carl, along with others from the Netherlands, was killed on 11 March 1943, five months before Fürstengrube became a formal Auschwitz sub-camp using forced labor from Auschwitz itself.

"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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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder
• Joods Monument
• Yad Vashem Deportation Database: Westerbork-Sobibor
• Fürstengrube
• Stolpersteine.eu