Stumbling Stones Vondelstraat 40

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on 13-5-2009, commemorate:
* SALOMON KAROLINSKI (born 1908, resistance fighter, arrested 15-8-1942, interned Mechelen, deported 18-8-1942, murdered in Auschwitz 25-9-1942
* ELISABETH ORCHER-KAROLINSKI (b.1912, arrested 15-8-1942, interned Mechelen, deported August 1942, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942)

These Stolpersteine lie here for a resistance fighter and a Jewish war victim, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

"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 the last voluntary 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.”

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck