As - 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 As

Dorpsstraat 47: ALBERT MATHIEU MARTING

                             MARIA ELISA IRMA SCHREURS

                             JOSEPH MARTING

Dorpsstraat 72: JULES COLSON

Stationsstraat: LIEBENS MICHEL

Stationsstraat 127: GUSTAAF STOILANTS


Dorpsstraat 47

hier woonde

ALBERT MATHIEU

 MARTING

geb. 1915

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 17.10.1942

ontsnapt

gearresteerd 12.1.1944

Zutendaal

gefusilleerd 11.4.1944

Breendonk

 

Dorpsstraat 47

here lived

ALBERT MATHIEU

MARTING

born 1915

resistance fighter

arrested 17.10.1942

escaped

arrested 12.1.1944

Zutendaal

executed 11.4.1944

Breendonk

 

Dorpsstraat 47

hier woonde

MARIA ELISA IRMA

SCHREURS

geb. 1912

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 29.4.1944

gedeporteerd 19.6.1944

uit Brussel, Ravensbrück

‘Hasag’, Leipzig-Schönefeld

vermoord 9.4.1945

Bergen-Belsen

 

Dorpsstraat 47

here lived

MARIA ELISA IRMA

SCHREURS

born 1912

resistance fighter

arrested 29.4.1944

deported 19.6.1944

from Brussel, Ravensbrück

‘Hasag’, Leipzig-Schönefeld

murdered 9.4.1945

Bergen-Belsen

 

Dorpsstraat 47

hier woonde

JOSEPH MARTING

geb. 1920

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 29.4.1944

gedeporteerd

uit Antwerpen

Buchenwald

vermoord 21.1.1945

Mittelbau-Dora

Dorpsstraat 47

here lived

JOSEPH MARTING

born 1920

resistance fighter

arrested 29.4.1944

deported

from Antwerpen

Buchenwald

murdered 21.1.1945

Mittelbau-Dora

MARTING Mathieu, one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.

Irma Schreurs

Joseph Marting


Dorpsstraat 72

hier woonde

JULES COLSON

geb. 1908

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 21.6.1942

gedeporteerd

uit Breendonk

vermoord 27.12.1942

Mauthausen-Gusen

Dorpsstraat 72

here lived

JULES COLSON

born 1908

resistance fighter

arrested 21.6.1942

deported

from Breendonk

murdered 27.12.1942

Mauthausen-Gusen


Stationsstraat       

hier woonde

MICHIEL ALBERT

LIEBENS

geb. 1916

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 21.6.1942

gedeporteerd

uit Breendonk

vermoord Dec-1944

Mauthausen-Gusen

Stationsstraat

here lived

MICHIEL ALBERT

LIEBENS

born 1916

resistance fighter

arrested 21.6.1942

deported

from Breendonk

murdered Dec-1944

Mauthausen-Gusen


Stationsstraat 127

hier woonde

GUSTAAF STOILANTS

geb. 1876

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 3.4.1944

gedeporteerd

uit Antwerpen

Buchenwald

bevrijd

Stationsstraat 127

here lived

GUSTAAF STOILANTS

born 1876

resistance fighter

arrested 3.4.1944

deported

from Antwerp

Buchenwald

liberated

The café owner Joseph Gustaaf Stoilants, born in Geetbets on November 25, 1876 and married to Adolphine Verdcourt, veteran 14-18, was arrested on April 3, 1944 and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was able to return after the liberation, but due to the hardships in Buchenwald he died in As on December 10, 1947.