Stumbling Stones Floraliastraat 65

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Jacques Henri Diependaal, born 1894, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1943, Auschwitz.
* Paula Emelia Diependaal, born 1932, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork,murdered 15 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Helena Diependaal-Hes, born 1895, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 15 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Henri Jacques Diependaal, born 1929, deported 12 October 1942 fromWesterbork, murdered 15 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Samuel Albert Diependaal, born 1926, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 28 February 1943, Auschwitz.
* Joseph Hugo Diependaal, born 1923, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 29 April 1945, Dachau.
* Marianne Bertha Haagens-Diependaal, born 1922, deported 12 October 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 15 October 1942, Auschwitz.
* Rosa Katzman-Katz. born 1879, deported 24 November 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 27 November 1942, Auschwitz.

Jacques Diependaal, a shop manager [winkelchef] and Helena Hes were married and lived with their family in a 3-bedroom house in Oss. In Westerbork, they attended the marriage of their daughter Marianne to Salomon Haagens on 10 October 1942. Five days later, the new bride age 20, her mother, her 13-year-old brother Henri and her 10-year-old sister Paula were all killed in Auschwitz. The new bridegroom Salomon was killed later - in February 1943. His stolperstein is at Floraliastraat 3 with his parents.

Five of Jacques and Helena's children were alive at the beginning of WW2 – Paula, Henri,Samuel, Joseph and Marianne. All were killed in Auschwitz or Dachau; their stolpersteine are with their parents'.

Jacques Diependaal’s brother Gaston Diependaal (born 1905) was killed in 1943 in Sobibor. The fate of his sister Olga Catharina Diependaal (born 1896) is unknown.

Helena Diependaal-Hes and her 6 siblings who were alive in Oss at the beginning of the war were all killed in the Holocaust. They are: Albert David Hes (1943 Sobibor – see Ridderstraat 58), Henri Zvi Hes (1943 Sobibor – see Heuvel 32, Oss), Dina Anna Hes (1943 Sobibor – see Spoorlaan 22), Hugo Daniel Hes (1944 Auschwitz – see Heuvel 79), Antje Hes (1942 Auschwitz – see Spoorlaan 52), Helena Diependaal-Hes (1942 Auschwitz – see Floraliastraat 65) and Meijer Hes (1943 Auschwitz – see Hermanslaan 1, Oss).

For Rosa Katzman-Katz, no information on her family has been found.

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