Stumbling Stone Nieuwe Achtergracht 107 hs

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
for
Salomon Lam.

Salomon Lam was murdered in Auschwitz on 13 November 1942. Lam had been arrested by the vice squad in August 1942. Lam was suspected of seducing "Aryan" men. The occupier judged on this basis that this Jew was a dangerous homosexual and a harmful element that had to be permanently banned from society. Lam would also have been a communist.

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