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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 Mariakerke

Adriaan Pietersstraat 42: ADRIAAN PIETERS 

André De Bruynestraat 5: ANDRE DE BRUYNE

Gérard Willemotlaan 90: GERARD WILLEMOT

Henri Storystraat 2-4: HENRY STORY

Born on 03.24.1914. André was arrested on 07.19.1944, deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp and assassinated on 12.31.1944 because he was a resistance member.

4th May 1947, the street in Mariakerke where he lived, the Trekweg, was renamed “Luitenant Gérard Willemotlaan” by the municipal council of Mariakerke and inaugurated.

Born on 15.5.1901 in Gent. Gérard was a resistance fighter who died as a political prisoner.
On December 1, 1940, he joined one of the first resistance organizations: the group around engineer Albert Tollenaere, Louis Cloquet and lawyer Antoine van Hoorebeke, who later joined the Belgian Legion (then merged into the Secret Army).  Gérard became an officer of the Staff of the Secret Army, Zone III. He himself recruited dozens of other members.

In April 1942 he was recruited by the great war invalid Constant Hubin from Luchteren-Drongen to become a member of the intelligence and action service Luc-Marc group VN / RY in Drongen and surroundings. He had contacts with the Zéro and Clarence networks.

On December 10, 1943 he was arrested at home in Mariakerke by the Geheime Feldpolizei, three days after the arrest of Georges Van Hecke, member of the same network. He was imprisoned in the prisons of Ghent and Saint-Gilles and deported to Germany on May 2, 1944 where he was imprisoned in the Zuchthaus, of Gross Strehlitz until October 30, 1944, date of his deportation to the concentration camp of Gross- Rosen, along with part of the Staff of the Secret Army.  With the advance of the Red Army, the camp was evacuated, in full winter, to Dora-Mittelbau, where he was assigned camp number 110727 on February 11, 1945 and died on February 19, 1945.

Henri Story was born 27.11.1897.  He was a resistance fighter and arrested on 22.10.1943. He was deported to Germany and died on 12.05.1944 in Gross-Rosen.