Stumbling Stones Prinses Julianastraat 4

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

* Friedrich I. Salomonson, born 1897, murdered 21 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Lion Salomonson, born 1930, murdered 21 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Hanni Bertel Salomonson, born 1932, murdered 21 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Esther Salomonson-Philips, born 1895, murdered 21 May 1943, Sobibor.

Friedrich Salomonson and Esther Philips married and had two children – Lion and Hanni Bertel. The four fled from Germany in December 1938. The two children first lived with their aunt and uncle De Bruin on Voorstraat in Hardenberg, then joined their parents in January 1940.

They were deported from Westerbork to Sobibor, where all four Salomonsons were murdered on the same day in May 1943. Lion was 12 years old, and Hanni 11. The De Bruins, with whom the children had stayed, were also all murdered by the end of that same month.

"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
• Wicher Dam, Historische Vereniging Hardenberg en Omgeving.
• "Levenslicht geeft Holocaust slachtoffers een gezicht," p.15
• Familie Friedrich Salomonson
• Stolpersteine.eu