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These brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed in april 2025 commemorate:

* RUSTHUIS (NURSING HOME) HALBERSTADT

* BETJE VAN PRAAG-GROENSTAD, (born 1881, murdered 28-8-1942 Auschwitz)
* REBECCA VAN PRAAG, (born 1884, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* RACHEL GOBETZ-DA SILVA ABENATAR, (born 1850, murdered 5-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* MARTHA KAHN (born 1891, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* GRIETJE VAN DAM-SNIJDERS, (born 1864, murdered 28-1-1943 Auschwitz)
* LEENTJE DE JONG (born 1875, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* SARA HEIGMANS, (born 1869, murdered 5-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* SARA PORCELIJN-LOEZA, (born 1863, murdered 12-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* NAATJE COHEN-VAN MOPPES, (born 1888, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* FEMMINA SLOUWERMAN, (born 1890, died 10-11-1941 Amsterdam)
* GRIETJE BROUWER, (born 1883, murdered 20-3-1943 Sobibor)
* BETJE SJOUWERMAN, (born 1872, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* SARA PEREIRA, (born 1891, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* GEESJE WANS, (born 1878, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* DINA KONIJN, (born 1897, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* MATHILDE DE LIEME, (1879, murdered 26-1-1943 Auschwitz)
* ESTHER VAN DAM-ROCO, (born 1868, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* GRIETJE ENGELSMAN, (born 1884, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* JUDITH COSTER, (born 1890, murdered 17-9-1942 Auschwitz)
* BERTHA SWELHEIM-TEN BRINK, (born 1871, murdered 26-1-1943 Auschwitz)
* JANSJE VAN FRANK, (born 1877, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* EVA VAN GELDER, (born 1860, murdered 5-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* EVA MATHIJSSE, (born 1890, murdered 1-2-1943 Auschwitz)
* SOPHIE WOLFF, (born 1916, murdered 4-6-1943 Sobibor)
* REBECCA WOLFF, (born 1919, murdered 4-6-1943 Sobibor)
* RIJNTJE STIBBE (born 1894, murdered 4-6-1943 Sobibor)
* LEENDERT HALBERSTADT, (born 1877, died 20-1-1943 prison Amsterdam)
* VROUWTJE HALBERSTADT-ROET, (born 1871, murdered 11-6-1943 Sobibor)

These Stolpersteine are here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and murdered in World War II. From 1934, this address was the home of Leendert Halberstadt and his wife Vrouwtje Roet. This boarding house, effectively a rest home, housed around 30 elderly Jewish ladies. On 17 December 1942, Leendert Halberstadt was arrested for an “economic offence” and died in the Havenstraat prison on 20 January 1943. On 25 January that year, the rest home was completely evacuated and the residents were deported via Westerbork to the death camps where they all died. Mrs Halberstadt and the staff members Rijntje Stibbe, Sophie and Rebecca Wolff initially stayed behind. They were rounded up a few months later and also perished in the camps.

The history of Leendert Halberstadt and the rest home can be read at - https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/46441/nursing-home-halberstadt

"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 sidewalk in front of a known residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. 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.”

nb. A stone for Betje van Praag-Groenstad had been placed here before 2025.