Stumbling Stones Brinkstraat 15

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES

HERE LIVED
ARON VAN GELDER BORN1881
ROZALIE VAN GELDER-STOFKOOPER BORN 1882
KILLED 1943 IN SOBIBOR

HERE LIVED
ALFRED VAN GELDER BORN 1907
FRITS VAN GELDER BORN 1913
KILLED 1943 AUSCHWITZ

HERE LIVED
KAREL VAN GELDER BORN 1922
JACOB VAN GELDER BORN 1924
KILLED 1944 CENTRAL EUROPA

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 ONLY FORGOTTEN WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed. This happened on 29-11-2007.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.com
• Photos: Sebastiaan Kamphuis
• Struikelstenen.nl