Stumbling Stones Stationsstraat 17

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

* Meijer Bromet, born 1866, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Asser Bromet, born 1873, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Marcus Bromet, born 1875, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Philip Bromet, born 1886, murdered 30 April 1943, Sobibor.

These brothers, all born in Hardenberg, were four of 11 children, five of whom died in infancy. They were merchants who had a drapery shop at this location.

Another brother, Joachim Bromet, and a sister, Therese Leviticus-Bromet, were murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 and 1942, respectively. Marcus Bromet’s wife and two children went into hiding and survived.

"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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