Roux - 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 Roux           

Rue du Préat, 15: RENE TOUSSAINT


Rue du Préat 15

ici habitait

RENE TOUSSAINT

né 1920

resistant

arreté 28.12.1943

fusillé 16.2.1944

TIR National

Rue du Préat 15

here lived

RENE TOUSSAINT

born 1920

resistant

arrested 28.12.1943

shot 16.2.1944

TIR National

René Toussaint was one of the Partisans Armés: he distributed clandestine newspapers, participated in acts of sabotage and in the execution of traitors. Arrested December 28, 1943, René Toussaint was imprisoned in Charleroi and executed in Tir de Marcinelle on February 16, 1944 in retaliation for the murder of Captain Schaffler.