Stumbling Stone Sterstraat 20

This brass plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 8-5-2025, commemorates:

* FREDERIC PAUWELS (b. 1901, resistance fighter Secret Army Brigade of Death, arrested in 1943, deported and murdered in 1945 in Mittelbau-Dora)

This Stolperstein lies here for a resistance fighter, persecuted, deported and murdered in the Second World War.

"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: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck