Stumbling Stones Alexanderstraat 31

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

* Bertha Rosenbaum-Levie, born 1882, deported 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 26 March 1943 Sobibor.
* Izaäk Rosenbaum, born 1881, deported 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 26 March 1943 Sobibor.

Izaäk Rosenbaum, a merchant, and Bertha Levie married and had one child, a son born in 1913. When their son went to university in Groningen, Izaäk and Bertha moved there. Izaäk owned farmland which he was forced to sell as per a Nazi order in 1941.

Their son, Ephraim Izaäk Levie Rosenbaum, his wife Johanna, and baby Maxje were murdered in Sobibor. Stolpersteine for them are at Jonas Daniël Meijerplein 13 in Amsterdam.


Note: house number 32 no longer exists, the stones are in front of house number 31).

"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."

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Source

• Text: Bert Deelman
• Photos: Bert Deelman (1, 2, 3), Suzanne Matrosov-Vruggink (4)
• Izaäk Rosenbaum
• Bertha Rosenbaum
• Stolpersteine.eu