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Stumbling Stones Oude Deldesestraat 34

(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
JULIE FRANKEN-SAMUEL BORN 1860
DEPORTED 1943 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1943 IN SOBIBOR

HERE LIVED
SIEGFRIED FRANKEN BORN 1899
DEPORTED 1942 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1943 CENTRAL EUROPA

HERE LIVED
JULIUS FRANKEN BORN 1939
AGATHA FRANKEN-VAN ZUIDEN BORN 1902
DEPORTED 1942 WESTERBORK
KILLED 1942 AUSCHWITZ

Source

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

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