Stumbling Stones Prins Hendriklaan 9

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES for

AKKER David Josef, age 39
AKKER-MEIJER Frida Sara, age 30
AKKER Diena Hilda, age 1 !

The Akker family lived in Rijswijk and gave birth to daughter Diena on May 8th, 1941. Diena was born prematurely and had to stay in the incubator for a while. All three were eventually killed by the Germans. Frida and Diena were murdered in Auschwitz extermination camp on Nov. 5th, 1942.

David Akker, after being rounded up until his death, was employed as a forced laborer by the Germans. Unsure of the fate of his wife and daughter, he was exploited to exhaustion by the Germans. He died somewhere in central Europe. More is not known about his fate.

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: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Historische Vereniging Rijswijk (1), Pieter Mielen (2, 3)
• https://www.joodsmonument.nl