Schellebelle - 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 Schellebelle

Hoogstraat 29: CORNELIS LEON VAN HERREWEGHE

Stationsstraat 30: ALBERT TEMMERMAN

Wettersestraat 25: MARGRIET CROMBEEN


Hoogstraat 29

hier woonde

CORNELIS LEON

VAN HERREWEGHE

geb. 1924

verplicht tewerkgestelde

Duitsland

overleden 31.12.1944

Neuengamme

Hoogstraat 29

here lived

CORNELIS LEON

VAN HERREWEGHE

born 1924

compulsorily employed

Germany

died 31.12.1944

Neuengamme

Born in Schellebelle on August 24, 1924. Shoemaker at De Decker, unmarried. Son of Josephus Van Herreweghe, railway worker and Veronica Van Gysel.  Compulsorily employed in the Junkers Motorenbau in Dessau from 05 November 1942 and from the beginning of the summer of 1944 in the Junkers factories in Aachen on the Elbe. Arrested by the Gestapo after intercepting a letter to his parents in which he wrote that he was sorry that the attempt on Hitler had failed.

 

Prisoner no. 63926 'Deutsche Werft' labor camp from 10/08/1944 in Neuengamme (Hamburg harbor area). Died on 31 December 1944 in Neuengamme after air raid. On 11 October 1949 the status of political prisoner was posthumously granted by the acceptance committee. This decision was annulled on 12 January 1951 following an appeal from the Belgian State.


Stationsstraat 30

hier woonde

ALBERT TEMMERMAN

geb. 1915

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 24.8.1944

Ledeberg

vermoord 24.8.1944

Gent

Stationsstraat 30

here lived

ALBERT TEMMERMAN

born 1915

resistance fighter

arrested 24.8.1944

Ledeberg

murdered 24.8.1944

Gent

Cigar maker, married to Lorette François, father of Johny. Son of Edmond Temmerman, farmer and Maria Bontinck. Lived in the Nester Martinstraat in Zellik. Deputy Corps Commander East Flanders of the Belgian Partisan Army from February 1942.  Distributed clandestine news items and pamphlets, was responsible for the transport of weapons and explosives, carried out various sabotage actions, raised funds. Nickname 'Bob'

 

Died on 24 August 1944 in Ghent. Last victim of the Gestapo in Ghent. Knocked out by a 'comrade' and in the De Nayerdreef in Ledeberg hit by 4 Flemish Security Police and wounded in the head during a firefight. Finished behind the Villa Hubain in the Miljoenenkwartier, residence of the leadership of the Ghent Gestapo. The next morning buried at the Executieoord in Oostakker. Reburied in Schellebelle on 27 October 1944 under enormous public interest.


Wettersestraat 25

hier woonde

MARGRIET CROMBEEN

geb. 1901

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 31.8.1944

Gentbrugge

gedeporteerd 1944

uit Gent

vermoord april 1945

Ravensbrück

Wettersestraat 25

here lived

MARGRIET CROMBEEN

born 1901

resistant

arrested 31.8.1944

Gentbrugge

deported 1944

from Gent

murdered april 1945

Ravensbrück

Married to Kamiel Venneman. Daughter of Eugenius Crombeen, workman and Maria Van de Wiele, flower worker. Lived at 17 Wettersestraat.  Member of the Belgian Partisan army from 01 July 1943, acted as a liaison between various resistance members and took part in a courier service for the transport of plans, false passports, hiding addresses, weapons and explosives in the Wetteren-Ghent region. Recruited by Hervé Capiau, local resistance leader. Carried out assignments for Albert Temmerman.

 

Arrested on 01 September 1944 by the Gestapo in café De Ton in Gentbrugge and after a few days in prison in Ghent deported to Germany on 03 September 1944.  Died in April 1945 in the Ravensbrück women's camp. Assigned to a crew that had to excavate the tree roots of a cleared forest for the construction of a runway. She had diarrhea and was probably gassed and cremated because she could no longer work and there was no infirmary. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on April 30, 1945.