Hoboken - 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 district of Hoboken

Commandant Weynsstraat 50: MEDART LEFEBVRE

Draaiboomstraat 53: FRANS DE ROECK

Goedentijdstraat 97: FRANS OST

Krekelstraat 1: ROBERT HANSEN


Commandant Weynsstraat 50

hier woonde

MEDART LEFEBVRE

geb. 1909

scheepshersteller

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 22.1.1942

geïnterneerd

gedeporteerd 1942

Mauthausen

vermoord 17.8.1943

Gusen

Commandant Weynsstraat 50

here lived

MEDART LEFEBVRE

born 1909

ship repairer

resistance fighter

arrested 22.1.1942

interned

deported 1942

Mauthausen

murdered 17.8.1943

Gusen


Draaiboomstraat 53

hier woonde

FRANS DE ROECK

geb. 1903

scheepshersteller

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 7.7.1944

gedeporteerd

Buchenwald

vermoord 20.4.1945

Goldenhöhe

Draaiboomstraat 53

here lived

FRANS DE ROECK

born 1903

ship repairer

resistance fighter

arrested 7.7.1944

deported

Buchenwald

murdered 20.4.1945

Goldenhöhe


Goedentijdstraat 97

hier woonde

PETRUS FRANS OST

geb. 1907

scheepshersteller

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 22.6.1941

geïnterneerd

gedeporteerd

uit Breendonk

vermoord 7.8.1942

Dachau

Goedentijdstraat 97

here lived

PETRUS FRANS OST

born 1907

ship repairer

resistance fighter

arrested 22.6.1941

interned

deported

from Breendonk

murdered 7.8.1942

Dachau


Krekelstraat 1

hier woonde

ROBERT HANSEN

geb. 1904

scheepshersteller

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 7.7.1944

gedeporteerd

vermoord 11.4.1945

Buchenwald

Krekelstraat 1

here lived

ROBERT HANSEN

born 1904

ship repairer

resistance fighter

arrested 7.7.1944

deported

murdered 11.4.1945

Buchenwald