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Stumbling Stones Emmastraat 3

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
- Abraham Wolff, born 1868, murdered 14-05-1943 Sobibor
- Bertha Wolff-Wolff, born 1875, murdered 14-05-1943 Sobibor
- Romain Wolff, born 1906, murdered 1943 Middle-Europe
- Silvain Wolff, born 1897, murdered 29-06-1942 Mauthausen
- Philip Hertz, born 1870,murdered 14-05-1943 Sobibor.

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: André Hendriks