Stumbling stones Vondelstraat 65

STOLPERSTEIN / STUMBLING STONE
For:

Henri Gomperts (Born. 1879, interned 20-6-1942, deported 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 18-7-1944 Bergen-Belsen)
Frederika Gomperts-Philips (Geb. 1891, interned 20-6-1942, deported 1944 from Westerbork, murdered 23-7-1944 Bergen-Belsen)
Ernst Henri Gomperts (Born 1914, deported from Drancy, murdered 1-7-1942 Auschwitz)

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'.

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Source

• Text: Rick Hoogervorst
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst