Stumbling Stones Molenstraat 143

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Henri Zilverberg, born 1912, deported 8 June 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.
* Emma Greta Rosalina Zilverberg, born 1942, deported 13 July 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 16 July 1943, Sobibor.
* Rosetta Zilverberg-van Zwanenbergh, born 1917, deported 13 July 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 16 July 1943, Sobibor.
* Abraham Emanuël Hanouwer, born 1918, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Fürstengrube, Poland.
* Emile Benjamin Elsbach, born 1900, deported 10 October 1942 from Mechelen, murdered 31 March 1943, Bismarckhütte, Poland.

Henri Zilverberg, an administrative assistant and his wife Rosetta van Zwanenbergh, had one child, Emma Greta Rosalina.

Henri’s sister-in-law Johanna Zilverberg-Pragrach and her baby Rosalina came to live in this house for a while before being deported and killed. Stolpersteine for them are at Peperstraat 8.

Rosetta van Zwanenbergh’s parents, Samuël and Grietje, her brother Louis Simon and her sister Antonetta Sophia were all killed in the Holocaust. Stolpersteine for them are at Hescheweg 22 in Oss.

Abraham Emanuël Hanouwer was an administrative assistant who lived in rooms at Henri Zilverberg’s house.

Emile Benjamin Elsbach was an engineer, killed at age 42. Bismarckhütte was the site of the Biskmarck steel mill belonging to the Berghütte company, which had been producing steel and armaments since 1940. In 1943, the mill started taking on forced labor and POWs in a large way. Emile and his brother Otto Isaac were killed in the same place and their brother Siegfired Paul Elsbach was killed in Central Europe.

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries. They commemorate the victims of the National Socialism (Nazism).
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, on which the name, year of birth and date and place of death are engraved.
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
• Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen 1940 – 1945