Borsbeek - 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 Borsbeek

Akkerdonckstraat 23: LOUIS MEYNCKENS


Akkerdonckstraat 23

hier woonde

LOUIS VICTOR

MEYNCKENS

geb. 1924

verzetsstrijder

‘Fidelio’

gearresteerd 17.7.1943

gedeporteerd

meerdere kampen

vermoord 22.3.1945

Mauthausen

Akkerdonckstraat 23

here lived

LOUIS VICTOR

MEYNCKENS

born. 1924

resistance fighter

‘Fidelio’

arrested 17.7.1943

deported

multiple camps

murdered 22.3.1945

Mauthausen

Borsbeek resident Louis Meynckens was born on April 8, 1924 and became a member of the resistance. On July 17, 1943, he was arrested by the Secret Field Police for possession of weapons and setting fire to a haystack near anti-aircraft guns. He stayed in a Belgian prison until September 1943, after which he ended up in various German concentration camps. He died in early March 1945 in the infirmary of the Austrian Mauthausen concentration camp.