Stumbling Stones Floraliastraat 56

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Louis Wolf, born 1892, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Bertha Wolf-Andriese, born 1895, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Abraham Wolf, born 1922, deported 26 October 1942, murdered 28 February 1943, Auschwitz area.
* Hertog Napoleon Wolf, born 1924, deported 15 November 1943 from Vught, murdered 31 March 1944, Auschwitz area.
* Rosa Elisabeth Wolf, born 1927, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.

Louis Wolf, a merchant [koopman] and Berthe Andriese were married in 1921 and had 3 children. The parents and their youngest, daughter Rosa Elisabeth - age 16, were murdered on the same day in Sobibor. Their two sons -- ages 20 and 21 -- were killed at different times later, in the Auschwitz area.

All six of Bertha’s siblings alive in 1940 were killed in the Holocaust: Catharina (1886-1943), Salomon (1887-1943), Henriette (1889-1943), Hugo (1891-1942), Arnold (1899-1943), Regina (1902-1942).

Information on Louis’s siblings, if he had any, was not found.

The German artist Gunter Demnig started placing the first Stolpersteine in 1997 in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Meanwhile there are Stolpersteine in many countries.
It reminds the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10cm, with a brass plate on top, in which the name, date of birth and decease and also place of decease is punched into.
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