Stumbling Stone and plaque Stationsstraat 29

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for
Elisabeth Lutraan.

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.

The text on the plaque is:
IN COMMEMORATION

FROM JUNE 1937 TILL FEBRUARY 1942
SIMON AND HELENA DE HAAS
LIVED HERE TOGETHER WITH THEIR DAUGHTER CAROLA.

THEY WENT INTO HIDING IN BORNE AND WERE DEPORTED ON 9 JANUARY 1944.

SIMON WAS KILLED ON 11 FEBRUARY 1944 AND HELENA ON 28 DECEMBER 1944 IN CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ.

THEIR DAUGHTER CAROLA WAS IN HIDING AND SHE SURVIVED THE WAR.

SIMON DE HAAS WAS THE SON OF THE FOUNDER OF KROON-OIL B.V. IN ALMELO.