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Stumbling Stones Van Slichtenhorststraat 16

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Gustav Wolf (born 1873, murdered in Auschwitz on 27-11-1942)
Julie Amalie Wolf-Strauss (born 1880, murdered in Auschwitz on 27-11-1942)
Hugo Liefmann (born 1871, murdered in Auschwitz on 07-12-1942)
Sophie Liefmann-Stern (born 1883, murdered in Auschwitz on 07-12-1942)
Minna Schmoll-Weihl (born 1897, murdered in Auschwitz on 26-02-1943)

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: Arjan Hell