Stumbling Stones Oudestraat 114

These small, brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or Stumbling Stones) commemorate the Rudelsheim family:

* Hartog Simon Rudelsheim, born 1889, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 27 November 1942.
* Simon Hartog Rudelsheim, born 1919, deported 1942, Central Europe, murdered 31 March 1944.
* Hartog Jacob Rudelsheim, born 1922, deported 1943 Sobibor, murdered 2 July 1943.
* Margaretha Rudelsheim-Blits, born 1893, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 27 November 1942.

Hartog Simon Rudelsheim, a draper, and Margaretha Blits married in Kampen in 1918. They had 2 sons -- Simon Hartog and Hartog Jacob, both born in Kampen. The family lived on Oudestraat. Parents Hartog Simon and Margaretha were deported in 1942 to Auschwitz and murdered there on the same November day.

When older, both of their sons moved to Amsterdam. Simon Hartog Rudelsheim studied medicine. He was arrested in Brussels as he tried to flee to Switzerland. He was deported to Central Europe and murdered 2 years later. His brother Hartog Jacob (Hans) Rudelsheim, a tailor, fled to Leiden but was betrayed and arrested there. On 29 June 1943 he was deported to the Sobibor extermination camp.

"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 pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. 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."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Kampen (in Dutch).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Hennie Schaper
• Joods Monument
• Stolpersteine.eu