Stolpersteine Grote Markt

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 12-5-2024, commemorates:
*Gustaaf Wauters.
From mid-June 1943 until his arrest, Gustaaf Wauters (°Turnhout Jan. 9, 1904) was provincial head of the B.N.B., paper merchant and librarian in charge of the escape network. Gustaaf Wauters was arrested through the betrayal of his sister-in-law Stella Peeraer on Feb. 7, 1944. He remains in the prisons of Antwerp and Saint-Gilles. August is executed on Jan. 31, 1945 at Sonnenburg in Germany, today Poland.

This Stolperstein lie here for a resistance fighter, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

"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 the last voluntary 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: Jhonny Bastiaensen, TracesOfWar
• Photos: Jhonny Bastiaensen