Stumbling Stones Heuvel 88 (now Hooghuisstraat 6)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Israël Förster, born 1869, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Anna Förster-Staal, born 1893, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Rosalie Staal-Förster, born 1860, deported to Camp Vught, died 20 April 1943, Camp Vught.
* Else Leeser, born 1900, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 3 September 1942, Auschwitz.

Israël Förster, a merchant and Anna Staal, 24 years younger, married but had no children. Rosalie Staal-Forster was Israel’s older sister and was Anna’s step-mother (her father’s third wife).
No further details were found on Else Leeser. Joods Monument speculated that she lived alone.
Israël’s parents died long before the war. Two of his other siblings died before the war; information on another is unknown.
Anna’s parents and her 2 brothers died before the war. Some of her step-siblings were killed in the Holocaust.

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.