Stumbling Stones Heuvel 40 (now Heuvel 14)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for

* Leonard van Dijk, born 1895, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 30 September 1943, Auschwitz.
* Roosje M. van Dijk-van Vriesland, born 1894, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Izak Philip van Dijk, born 1930, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Philip Jacques van Dijk, born 1938, deported 16 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 19 October 1942, Auschwitz.

Leonard van Dijk, a merchant, married Roosje van Vriesland. They and their two sons, Izak (age 12) and Philip (age 4) were all deported the same day from Westerbork and arrived in Auschwitz two days later. Roosje and the two children were murdered the next day in Auschwitz; father Leonard lived another 11 months.

Leonard’s parents died before the war. Of their 8 children, 3 survived the war (Regina, Isidoor, Jacoba); and 5 were killed in the war (Leonard himself, Benjamin at Sobibor, Elisabeth at Auschwitz, Alexander at Gogolin and Sophia at Rotterdam due to lack of treatment for an illness because she lacked ID papers).

Roosje’s sister, Reina Mathilde Vos-van Vriesland, her husband Philip Vos and their 2 sons, Philip and Emanuel, were also killed in the Holocaust. All four are remembered with other Gorinchem victims in the Gorinchem Jewish Memorial

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 FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.

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

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Peter Mulder
• Joods Monument
• Dutch Jewry