Stumbling Threshold Naamsestraat 73

On 03-02-2017 was laid here in Kessel-Lo a Stumbling Threshold (Stolperschwelle).
Text on the threshold:
Royal Atheneum Leuven
more than 50 pupils and teachers were
victims of National Socialism
48 of them did not survive the period 1940-1945.

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'.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Matthew Alex Hall