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Stumbling Stones Grotestraat 212

(Netherlands, the - Overijssel - Borne)

STOLPERSTEINE / STUMBLING STONES
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 ONLY FORGOTTEN WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN'.
Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed. This happened on 29-11-2007.

HERE LIVED
DAVID VAN GELDER BORN 1873
TRUITJE VAN GELDER-HIEGENLICH BORN 1884
JACOB VAN GELDER BORN 1879
MINA VAN GELDER-HIEGENLICH BORN 1880
DEPORTED 1943 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1943 IN SOBIBOR

HERE LIVED
WOLF LEIB ENGLANDER BORN 1893
DEPORTED 1942 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1945 IN AUSCHWITZ

HERE LIVED
JOSEPH REINHOLD BORN 1916
DEPORTED 1942 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1945 IN CENTRAL EUROPA

Source

• Text: Anneke Moerenhout
• Photos: Anneke Moerenhout
• Struikelstenen.nl

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