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Stumbling Stones Rue Andre Fauchille 10

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for:
Odile Ovart-Henri
Remy Ovart
Andre Ovart
Emma Patron
Anna Patron
Isidore Kossover
Regine-Rywka Kossover
Joanna Juzefowicz
Henri Juzefowicz
Chaja-Helena Gancarska
Boris-Maurice Gurman
Bernard Lipsztadt
Ingeborg Stern
Rachel Tomar
Marcel Wisznia

On 12-June-1943, Gestapo agents raided a private boarding school in the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre neighborhood of Brussels which housed multiple Jewish students in hiding. All the Jewish students along with the headmaster and her husband were arrested and most were later killed. In 2018, the city of Brussels laid 15 stumbling stones in front of the former Gatti de Gamond school which was severely damaged during the war and later replaced with a residential building.

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: Chris Case + TracesOfWar
  • Photos: Chris Chase (1, 2), Marie-Christine Vinck (3, 4, 5)