Stumbling Stones Waalstraat 77

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on 17-11-2021, commemorate:
* JOSEPH HARTLOOPER (born 1889, interned 8-10-1942, deported from Westerbork, murdered 13-11-1942, Auschwitz)
* MAX MEIJER (born 1900, interned 8-10-1942, went into hiding in Wageningen in 1942, fled to his death on 14-2-1943)

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

Max Meijer Wolder was a tobacco merchant. He lived in Amsterdam and married Marianne de Jongh in 1924. The couple had one child. The marriage was dissolved in 1932.

During the war, Meijer Wolder went into hiding in Wageningen. The usually calm and gentle Wolder could no longer cope with life. In 1943, he committed suicide at the address of his hosts. Members of the resistance secretly buried his remains behind a cigar factory in Nude. After the war, the body was reburied in the Jewish cemetery in Wageningen.

"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: Dick de Bruijne + Rick Hoogervorst + TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst
• Joseph Hartlooper | Joodsmonument.nl
• Meijer Wolder | Joodsmonument.nl
• Meijer Wolder | Wageningen 1940-1945