Charleroi - 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 Charleroi

Boulevard Paul Janson 6: HERSZEK ROJTMAN

Boulevard Paul Janson 34: EMILE DAUREL

Rue Chavannes 38: FELDON IZRAEL

Rue Chavannes 42: HERSZ DOBRZINSKI

Rue de la Cayauderie 188: VALENTIN WATHELET

Rue de la Régence 37: OSCAR PETIT

                                         EGLANTINE PETIT-PIERRE

Rue de la Régence 65: JOSEK MACHNOWSKI


Boulevard Paul Janson 6

ici habitait  

HERSZEK ROJTMAN

né 1907

arrêté 9.1942

détenu Prison Charleroi  

Malines  

déporté 15.1.1943

Auschwitz  

assassiné

Boulevard Paul Janson 6

here lived

HERSZEK ROJTMAN

born 1907

arrested 9.1942

detained Charleroi Prison

Mechelen

deported 15.1.1943

Auschwitz

murdered

The first "pavement of memory" of Charleroi was for ROJTMAN, Herszek born in Stoczek in Poland on 22/05/1907 and deported by the eighteenth convoy to Auschwitz. 
In September 1942 Charleroi was the victim of a raid; a convoy leaves for deportation ... 38% of the Jews registered in Charleroi are deported.


Boulevard Paul Janson 34

ici habitait

EMILE DAUREL

né 1913

resistant  

arrêté  16.2.1944

pendu 25.2.1944

Tir National

Boulevard Paul Janson 34

here lived

EMILE DAUREL

born 1913

resistant

arrested 16.2.1944

hanged 25.2.1944

Tir National

Emile Daurel was a member of Group G, a non-commissioned officer of the Maquis de Senzeilles. He was arrested by the Wehrmacht on February 16, 1944 and sentenced to death by hanging and executed on February 25, 1944.


Rue Chavannes 38

ici habitait

Feldon IZRAEL

né 1889

arrêté 1.8.1942

détenu Malines  

déporté 11.8.1942

Auschwitz  

assassiné

Rue Chavannes 38

here lived

Feldon IZRAEL

born 1889

arrested 1.8.1942

detained Mechelen

deported 11.8.1942

Auschwitz

murdered

At 38 Rue Chavannes in Charleroi, lived Israël Feldon, born May 26, 1893 in Zgiersh (Poland) and who was a Shoemaker.
He was deported because he was Jewish by the 2nd convoy, on August 11, 1942, which left Mechelen for Auschwitz. And murdered.


Rue Chavannes 42

ici habitait

HERSZ DOBRZINSKI

né 1924 Pologne

resistant

arrêté 14.4.1943

Breendonk

fusillé 14.7.1943

Tir National

Rue Chavannes 42

here lived

HERSZ DOBRZINSKI

born 1924 Poland

resistant

arrested 14.4.1943

Breendonk

shot 14.7.1943

Tir National

Hersz Dobrzinski, born April 16, 1924 in Wongrow, Poland.  He was a resistant fighter and an active member of the JGSU (Unified Socialist Young Guard). He participated in many actions such as the sabotage of electricity pylons and the execution of collaborators. Armed partisan and leader of the "Brussels Corps".

Arrested on April 15, 1943 during an attack on a Rexist, he was imprisoned in Breendonck, then shot on July 14, 1943 as a terrorist hostage.

Hersz Dobrzinski was buried at the Tir National in Schaerbeek - Enclosure of the executed.


Rue de la Cayauderie 188

ici habitait

VALENTIN WATHELET

né 1919

resistant

arreté 1.10.1943

fusillé 16.2.1944

Tir National

Rue de la Cayauderie 188

here lived

VALENTIN WATHELET

born 1919

resistant

arrested 1.10.1943

shot 16.2.1944

Tir National

Valentin Wathelet was a waiter. He was arrested in Bergen on October 1, 1943, in possession of a weapon, ready to launch an attack. He was part of the "DINGOT" group affiliated with the "Patriotic Militia" and the Independence Front. Valentin Wathelet was executed in Tir de Marcinelle on February 16, 1944, in retaliation for the murder of Captain Schaffler.


Rue de la Régence 37

ici habitait

OSCAR PETIT

né 1905

resistant

Front Indépendance

arrêté 28.3.1944

déporté

Ellrich

assassiné 14.3.1945

Rue de la Régence 37

here lived

OSCAR PETIT

born 1905

resistant

Front Independence

arrested 28.3.1944

deported

Ellrich

assassinated 14.3.1945

Rue de la Régence 37

ici habitait  

EGLANTINE

PETIT-PIERRE

née 1907

resistante  

Front Independence  

arrêtée 28.3.1944

deportee  

Ravensbrück  

assassinée 28.3.1945

Rue de la Régence 37

here lived

EGLANTINE

PETIT-PIERRE

born 1907

resistant

Front Independence

arrested 28.3.1944

deported

Ravensbrück

murdered 28.3.1945

Oscar, born March 23, 1907 in Marcinelle and Églantine Pierre, born April 21, 1907 in Braine-l'Alleud, were confectioners from Charleroi. When war broke out, they joined the resistance and were subsequently cited in numerous resistance or escape networks (Comet). On March 28, 1944 they were betrayed by a Frenchman they had housed and then sent to the camps Buchenwald, Dora, Ellrich (Oscar) and Buchenwald and Ravensbrück (Eglantine). They did not return.


Rue de la Régence 65

ici habitait  

JOSEK MACHNOWSKI

né 1904

arrêté 11.1.1943

détenu Malines  

déporté 15.1.1943

Auschwitz  

assassiné

Rue de la Régence 65

here lived

JOSEK MACHNOWSKI

born 1904

arrested 11.1.1943

detained Mechelen

deported 15.1.1943

Auschwitz

murdered

Josek Machnowski born January 19 1904 was deported by the XIX convoy that left Mechelen.