Tamines - 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 Tamines

Rue du Roi Albert 24: THEODULE DUFAUX


Rue du Roi Albert 24

ici habitait  

THEODULE DUFAUX

né 1901

resistant

armée secrete  

arrêté  17.3.1944

déporté

Mittelbau-Dora

assassiné 9.3.1945

Nordhausen

Rue du Roi Albert 24

here lived

THEODULE DUFAUX

born 1901

resistant

secret army

arrested 17.3.1944

deported

Mittelbau-Dora

assassinated 9.3.1945

Nordhausen

Théodule Dufaux, born in 1901, was a resistant fighter to the secret army, he was arrested in March 1944, deported to Dora concentration camp and murdered in Nordhausen on March 9, 1945.