Gilly - 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 town of Gilly

Rue Narcisse Evrard, 52: NARCISSE EVRARD


Rue Narcisse Evrard 52

ici habitait

NARCISSE EVRARD

né 1893

resistant

arreté 28.11.1942

Breendonk

fusillé 16.7.1943

TIR National

Rue Narcisse Evrard 52

here lived

NARCISSE EVRARD

born 1893

resistant

arrested 28.11.1942

Breendonk

shot 16.7.1943

TIR National 

Narcisse Evrard was a police officer. He is resistant and carries clandestine newspapers and forwards them to sub-distributors between January 1, 1941 and November 28, 1942, the date of his arrest in Gilly. Denounced by his adopted daughter's fiancée, Narcisse Evrard was shot at Marcinelle's shooting range on July 16, 1943.