Stumbling Stones Floraliastraat 23

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Herman van Beek, born 1908, deported 9 February 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 30 April 1943, Auschwitz.
* Sybilla van Beek-de Wijze, born 1919, deported 9 February 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 12 February 1943, Auschwitz.

Herman van Beek and Sybilla de Wijze were married. No record of children was seen.

Herman was a correspondent. His father Emanuel van Beek died in Amsterdam in 1940 at age 58 and his mother, Gonda Nink, survived the war, dying at age 65 in 1949. A brother, born 1916, also survived. Further information is not known.

Sybilla was called Elly. Her immediate family all were killed in the Holocaust. Her mother Lea de Wijze (age 48), her father Levi Mozes de Wijze (age 58) and youngest sister Albertina (age 19) were killed on 17 Septemer 1943 at Auschwitz. Her other sisters Katje (age 22) and Johanna Jeanette (age 20) were killed on 15 December 1942 in Auschwitz. In Nijmegen where they lived, a square is named after Katje (Kitty) de Wijze as a tribute to all Nijmegen Jewish citizens 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.