Stumbling Stone Vrijheidslaan 82 3th floor

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 15-04-2014, commemorates:
ISAÄC METZELAAR (born 1874, arrested 6-7-1942, deported, murdered 19-8-1942, Auschwitz)

These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

Isaäc Metzelaar was arrested by the vice squad on 6 July 1942 for prohibited homosexual behaviour. He was then 68 years old. Metzelaar was also Jewish and was part of one of the first transports from Amsterdam to Westerbork. There he was one of the prisoners who were deported to Auschwitz on July 24, where he was murdered on August 19, 1942.


"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: Dick de Bruijne (1), Rick Hoogervorst (2, 3, 4)