Beaumont - 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 Beaumont 

Grand Place, 11: HERMES JULIEN VERSTICHEL


Grand Place 11

a Solre-Saint-Géry

habitait  

HERMES JULIEN

VERSTICHEL

né 1914

resistant  

Armée des Partisans  

arrêté 4.6.1944

déporté  

Gross-Rosen  

assassiné Fev. 1945

Grand Place 11

in Solre-Saint-Géry

lived

HERMES JULIEN

VERSTICHEL

born 1914

resistant

Partisan Army

arrested 4.6.1944

deported

Gross-Rosen

assassinated Feb. 1945

In February 1945, Hermès Julien Verstichel was shot by the Nazis. This resistant one from Solre-Saint-Géry is 30 years old and leaves 4 orphans behind.