Stumbling Stones Nieuwe Herengracht 189

'A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS NAME IS FORGOTTEN'
(Talmud)

Here in Amsterdam four Stumbling Stones were laid on April 13, 2022 for:

HIJMAN POLK, murdered on June 4, 1943 in Sobibor.

JAANTJE POLK-COHEN DE LARA, murdered on June 4, 1943 in Sobibor.

FREDERIKA BEHR-POLK, murdered on September 30, 1942 in Auschwitz.

LOUIS POLK, murdered on March 31, 1944 in Central-Europe.

These Stumbling Stones are here for Jewish war victims, deported and murdered in the Second World War.

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne