Stumbling Stones Markt 6

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

* Hartog Simon Blein, born 1909, murdered 16 July 1943, Sobibor.
* Regina Bertha Blein, born 1938, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.
*Johanna Blein-Zilverberg, born 1908, murdered 11 June 1943, Sobibor.

Hartog Simon Blein, called Harry, was a butcher who worked with his brother Simon in their father’s butcher shop. Harry and Johanna Zilverberg married in 1938, and their daughter Regina – called Ginie – was born later that same year. In June 1942, they lived at this location. One year later, all three were taken to Vught. Then Johanna and Ginie were put on a so-called "kindertransport" from Vught. It went to Sobibor, where both were murdered. Ginie was 4. Harry Blein was taken from Vught one month later and also ended up in Sobibor, murdered.

Harry’s brother Simon survived the war. Stolpersteine for their parents, David and Regina Blein, are at Voorstraat 30 in Hardenberg.

Johanna’s father died in Amsterdam in 1936. One of her brothers, Simon Zilverberg, was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. Her mother was murdered the next year in Sobibor. A second brother survived the war and lived in the Netherlands to the age of 92.

"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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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Jasper Nijman, Stichting Historische Projecten Hardenberg
• "Levenslicht geeft Holocaust slachtoffers een gezicht," p.8
• Joods Monument
• Stolpersteine.eu