Kortrijk - 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 Kortrijk

Graanmarkt 9: EDMOND BUYSSCHAERT


Graanmarkt 9

hier leefde

EDMOND

BUYSSCHAERT

geb. 1923

geheim leger

vermoord 2.9.1944

Kortrijk

Graanmarkt 9

here lived

EDMOND

BUYSSCHAERT

born 1923

secret army

murdered 2.9.1944

Kortrijk

Edmond Buysschaert was active in the resistance during WWII. He helped Allied pilots go into hiding and participated in various sabotage actions. On Saturday September 2, 1944, he was shot by a German column, during a sabotage action on the railway line Kortrijk – Brussels. He was only 21 years old.