Stumbling Stones Rue Devant les Ecoliers 3

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), commemorate:
* STRUL NEMETH, born 1900 Czechoslovakia, arrested 24 September 1942, interned Malines, deported 1942, Auschwitz murdered.
* SURA FRYDLA NEMETH-SABOVITCH (born 1905, Czechoslovakia, arrested 24 September 1942, interned Malines, deported 1942, Auschwitz murdered)
* BLANCA SABOVIC-OVA (born 1919 Czechoslovakia, arrested July 1942, interned at Malines, deported 1942, Auschwitz murdered)
* FRIEDA NEMETH (born 1931, in hiding Banneux, survived)
* GILLES-JULES NEMETH (born 1933, arrested 24 September 1942, interned Malines, deported 1942, Auschwitz murdered)
* MILE NEMETH (born 1935, arrested 24 September 1942, interned Malines, deported 1942, Auschwitz murdered.
These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

Strul (Srael) Nemeth and Sura (Sara) Sabovitch married, moved to Belgium and had 3 children: Frieda, Jules-Gilles and Emile. Blanca Sabovic-Ova, Sura’s sister, came to live with them in 1937. At the end of July 1942, Blanca received a summons for forced labor and she went to Mechelen/Malines transit camp, from which she was deported on 4 August 1942 to Auschwitz. From that time, the family avoided spending nights at their home. Frieda went to a children’s colony where she was to stay a few days until her brothers collected her.

Instead, her brothers and parents were all arrested, sent to Mechelen/Malines and deported on 26 September to Auschwitz. Only Frieda survived because she was hidden and protected until the end of the war by non-Jewish families.

"Stolpersteine” is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the sidewalk in front of the last voluntary residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: “A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.”

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer, TracesOfWar
• Photos: LiveFromLiège
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Six Pavés de Mémoire pour la Famille Nemeth
• Stolpersteine.eu