Stumbling Stone Jacob Obrechtstraat 64 4th floor

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for
Frieda Belinfante

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.

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'.

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed.
This happened the 29-11-2007.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst