Stumbling Stones Ridderstraat 27

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Mozes Wolf, born 1888, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Philip Wolf, born 1916, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 12 February 1945, Germany.
* Jansje Wolf-Vrieslander, born 1887, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.

* Rudolf Schwarz, born 1893, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Fürsten-Grube, Poland.
* Irma Schwarz-Levi, born 1891, deported 31 July 1944 from Westerbork, died 31 May 1945, Bergen-Belsen.
* Selma Levi, born 1886, deported 22 January 1943 from Apeldoorn, murdered 25 January 1943, Auschwitz.

Mozes Wolf and Jansje Wolf-Vrieslander had 3 children – Philip (above), Rozette and Nico. Rozette survived the war and died in 2016 (age 97). The fate of Nico not seen in public records. Philip Wolf married Estella Hes. Both worked at Organon until late 1942 when they were fired because they were Jews. A Stolperstein for Estella Wolf-Hes, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942, is with her father’s and step-mother’s stolpersteine at Hermanslaan 6 in Oss.

Rudolph Schwartz and Irma Schwartz-Levi were married. Selma Levi was Irma’s sister.

Irma was sent to Bergen-Belsen. When the British liberated the camp on 15 April 1945, it had about 60,000 prisoners under conditions of extreme deprivation of food, water and sanitation. Diseases affected the prisoners as well. Irma was among the more than 13,000 liberated prisoners who were too weak to survive; she died six weeks later.

"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
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu