Burcht - 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 Burcht

Koning Albertstraat 55: LEO VERBEECK


Koning Albertstraat 55

hier woonde

LEO VERBEECK

geb. 1911

scheepshersteller

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 22.1.1942

geïnterneerd

Breendonk

gedeporteerd 1942

Mauthausen

vermoord 11.3.1944

Gusen

Koning Albertstraat 55

here lived

LEO VERBEECK

born 1911

ship repairer

resistance fighter

arrested 22.1.1942

interned

Breendonk

deported 1942

Mauthausen

murdered 11.3.1944

Gusen

As a resident of Burcht, Leo Verbeeck was involved in the resistance when he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. He was eventually transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died.