Stumbling Stones Ridderstraat 29

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
for
* Frederik de Jong, born 1894, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Izak Salomon de Jong, born 1924, deported 31 August 1942 from Westerbork, murdered 11 March 1943, Fürsten-Grube, Poland.

* Henriëtte Rosetta de Jong-van Straten, born 1890, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Nathan Martin de Jong, born 1929, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.
* Aaron Barend de Jong, born 1930, deported 25 May 1943 from Westerbork, murdered 28 May 1943, Sobibor.

Frederik and Henriëtte Rosetta were the parents of Maurits, Izak, Nathan and Aaron. Maurits lived in another town.

Izak at age 20 was taken first along with other young men from Oss and sent to work in the mine at Fürsten-Grube, where he was killed six months later.

Frederik, Henriëtte Rosetta and 2 other sons were deported on the same day and all were killed 3 days later. Their oldest son (Maurits Samuel, born 1920) and his wife Annie lived in Zaltbommel, NL. They were also killed in Sobibor -- in July 1943. See their stolpersteine at Minnebroederstraat 4, Zaltbommel, Netherlands.

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