Stumbling Stone Oud Nieuwlandseweg 20

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for
Anna Haas-Franken.

This was the first stone to be laid on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee.

The house still exists under the same name.

Anna Franken married Meijer Haas, who died in 1919. She and a married daughter had been coming to Ouddorp with her family for several years for a holiday. In 1938 Anna Franken bought the stone holiday home 'Sonnevanck' on Strandweg, now Oude Nieuwlandseweg. She was the only Jewish resident in Ouddorp.

During the war, Anna Franken's neighbors offered to take her in as a 'housekeeper', so that she might be less noticeable. Because she didn't want to get her neighbors into trouble, Anna refused. Early on the morning of October 12, 1942, a police officer knocked at her door and instructed her to get ready to leave. This agent also gave her the opportunity to flee, but again she did not accept the offer. She had to hand in a gold brooch, a silver wristwatch with a bracelet and NLG 26.37 in money.

Anna was taken to the police prison 'Het Haagse Veer' in Rotterdam. From there she went to the 'Hollandse Schouwburg', from there to Westerbork and finally to Auschwitz.

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.