Tournai - 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 Tournai

Rue des Carmes 19: DENISE DEBORAH LEHMANN


Rue des Carmes 19

ici enseignait

DENISE DEBORAH

LEHMANN

nee 1908

exclue 1940

arretee 12.7.1944

deportee 31.7.1944

assasinee

Auschwitz

Rue des Carmes 19

here taught

DENISE DEBORAH

LEHMANN

born 1908

excluded 1940

arrested 12.7.1944

deported 31.7.1944

assassinated

Auschwitz

Denise Deborah Lehmann was born in Liège on November 1, 1908. She was a doctor of philosophy, language teacher, at the Ecole Normale de l'Etat in Tournai (1937-1940), she was expelled from school for being Jewish .  She was put on the list in Kazerne Dossin on June 2, 1944 and put on transport XXVI leaving Mechelen on July 31, 1944, transport number 465.