Aartselaar - Stolpersteine
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A Stolperstein literally "stumbling stone", metaphorically a "stumbling block" is a sett-size, 10 by 10 centimetres (3.9 in × 3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.
The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate individuals at exactly the last place of residency—or, sometimes, work—which was freely chosen by the person before he or she fell victim to Nazi terror, euthanasia, eugenics, was deported to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. As of 29 March 2018, over 67,000 Stolpersteine have been laid in 22 countries, making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial.
The majority of Stolpersteine commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti and Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), homosexuals, the physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, members of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the anti-Nazi Resistance, the Christian opposition (both Protestants and Catholics), and Freemasons, along with International Brigade soldiers in the Spanish Civil War, military deserters, conscientious objectors, escape helpers, capitulators, "habitual criminals", looters, and others charged with treason, military disobedience, or undermining the Nazi military, as well as Allied soldiers.
List of Stolpersteine in the city of Aartselaar
Hoevelei 53: CAMILLE PAULUS
MARIA LUDOVICA DE VRIES
CONSTANCE CALLAERT
Hoevelei 53
hier woonde
CAMILLE PAULUS
geb. 1882
gearresteerd 28.8.1944
vermoord 1944
Neuengamme
Hoevelei 53
here lived
CAMILLE PAULUS
born 1882
arrested 28.8.1944
murdered 1944
Neuengamme
Hoevelei 53
hier woonde
MARIA LUDOVICA
DE VRIES
geb. 1884
gearresteerd 28.8.1944
vermoord 15.12.1944
Ravensbrück
Hoevelei 53
here lived
MARIA LUDOVICA
DE VRIES
born 1884
arrested 28.8.1944
murdered 15.12.1944
Ravensbrück
Hoevelei 53
hier woonde
CONSTANCE
CALLAERT
geb. 1909
gearresteerd 28.8.1944
vermoord 15.2.1945
Ravensbrück
Hoevelei 53
here lived
CONSTANCE
CALLAERT
born 1909
arrested 28.8.1944
murdered 15.2.1945
Ravensbrück
Camilius Leonardus Paulus, born July 3, 1882, in Aartselaar, married to Maria De Vries, a resistance fighter, who died in Neuengamme at the age of 62.
Maria Ludovica De Vries, born April 12, 1884, in Aartselaar, a resistance fighter, who died on December 15, 1944, in Ravensbrück at the age of 60.
Constance Callaert, a resistance fighter and the Paulus family's housekeeper, died at the age of 36 in Ravensbrück.