Stumbling Stones Voorstraat 30

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

* David Blein, born 1882, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Regina Blein-Hoogstraal, born 1883, murdered 14 May 1943, Sobibor.

David Blein, a butcher, and Regina Hoogstraal married in 1906. They had three children: Eva, who died in 1925, Hartog Simon, and Simon. The sons worked with their father in his butcher shop at Voorstraat 30.

Stolpersteine for son Hartog Simon Blein, his wife, and their young daughter are at Markt 6 in Hardenberg. Their other son, Simon, survived the war.

"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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