Stumbling Stones Gaykingastraat 43

These brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
*MOZES MEIJER (born 1881, deported from Westerbork and murdered 20 March 1943, Sobibor)
*JOHANNA MEIJER-DE LEVIE (born 1879, deported from Westerbork and murdered 20 March 1943, Sobibor)

Mozes Meijer was born on July 20, 1881, in Ten Boer. He was a butcher by trade. On August 31, 1910, he married Johanna de Levie. Together they started a family and had four children.

They were deported from Camp Westerbork to the Sobibor extermination camp on March 17, 1943. Three days after their arrival, on March 20, 1943, Mozes Meijer and his wife Johanna were murdered.

These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims deported and 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 a residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the name of the victim, date of birth and the fate of these people. 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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