Stumbling Stones Groningerstraat 24

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for:

Daniel van Gelder (3-3-1881 Assen, 2-11-1942 Auschwitz)
Samuel van Gelder (14-2-1913 Groningen, 13-9-1942 Auschwitz)

In april 1942 they were the residents of Groningerstraat 24 Assen.
Judikje van Gelder-Troostwijk wife/mother (14-1-1880 Leeuwarden, 5-1-1941 Assen) died a year earlier. They had a son Samuel and a daughter Fogeltje Rubens-van Gelder (29-9-1911 Groningen, 29-10-1942 Auschwitz). She lived in Deventer, Grote Overstraat 73.

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.com en Gerrit Hazenberg
• Photos: Gerrit Hazenberg
• Joods Monument.nl