Stumbling Stones Floraliastraat 49

These small, brass, memorial plaques (stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Lazarus de Vries, born 1889, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Mina de Vries-de Vries, born 1892, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Samuel de Vries, born 1922, deported 2 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 31 October 1943, Schoppenitz, Poland.
* Jacob de Vries, born 1925, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 10 May 1943, Bobrek, Poland.

Lazarus and Mina de Vries had two children. At the time of deportations, son Samuel, age 20, was working for the de Leeuw bakers in Deventer, Netherlands. Teenage son Jacob and his parents were deported from Westerbork on the same day. The parents were killed in Auschwitz 3 days later. Samuel and Jacob ended up in different sites in Poland, where they were killed.

In Deventer, at Nieuwstraat 25 another stolperstein was laid for Samuel along with those for the de Leeuw family.

"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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