Stumbling Stone Jacob Obrechtstraat 64 4th floor

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 07-10-2021, commemorates:
* FRIEDA BELINFANTE (born 1904, resistance fighter, fled in 1944, Montreux, Lausanne)

This Stolperstein lies here for a resistance fighter, persecuted in World War II.

The lesbian resistance woman Frieda Belinfante was a cellist and conductor. During the war she joined the resistance group of Gerrit van der Veen and Willem Arondéus. There she helps with forging identity cards. She is helping to prepare for the attack on the Population Register. Most of the perpetrators of that attack are arrested and killed, but Belinfante manages to escape. She goes through life unrecognizable as a man for some time. Later she goes into hiding and eventually she flees to Switzerland.


"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.”

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst