Monceau-sur-Sambre - 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 Monceau-sur-Sambre

Rue Thiébaut, 21: LOUIS HANNICK


Rue Thiébaut 21

ici habitait

LOUIS HANNICK

né 1913

resistant

arreté 3.10.1943

fusillé 16.2.1944

TIR National

Rue Thiébaut 21

here lived

LOUIS HANNICK

born 1913

resistant

arrested 3.10.1943

shot 16.2.1944

TIR National

Louis Hannick was a furrier. Involved in resistance with the "patriotic militias" of the Independence Front, he was responsible for various sabotages and for recovering stamps, weapons and ammunition for the maquisards. Arrested in Bergen on October 3, 1943, Louis Hannick was shot on the Tir de Marcinelle on February 16, 1944.