Dampremy - 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 Dampremy

Rue Hector Denis, 72: MAURICE LINGLART


Rue Hector Denis 72

ici habitait

MAURICE LINGLART

né 1906

resistant

arreté 2.2.1944

fusillé 16.2.1944

TIR national

Rue Hector Denis 72

here lived

MAURICE LINGLART

born 1906

resistant

arrested 2.2.1944

shot 16.2.1944

TIR National

Maurice Linglart, a central heating installer, was arrested on 2 February 1944 by the Gestapo at Charleroi-Sud station. He then owned 5 kilos of explosives and 2 detonators. Maurice Linglart was part of the group Insubmissives, distributed political leaflets and informed the Front of Independence; he was also active in the Belgian National Movement. Imprisoned in Charleroi, he was executed as a hostage in Tir de Marcinelle on February 16, 1944, in retaliation for the murder of Captain Schaffler.