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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 Lauwe

Koningin Astridlaan 38: JULIEN CAGNIE

Julien Cagnie was born in Lauwe at the end of 1899 and grew up there. In 1919 he did his military service in Mechelen and met his future wife there: Marie Elisabeth Verlinden. Julien and Marie married in Mechelen and continued to live there until 1938. They had one daughter Marie Louise (°1924). Then the Cagnie family settled in Lauwe at Koningin Astridlaan no. 38. Julien was active there as a bicycle repairman/mechanic.

During the Second World War, Julien was active in the resistance as an intelligence agent. He was arrested on December 7, 1943 at the station in Poperinge, while accompanying three American pilots. He was imprisoned in De Nieuwe Wandelen prison in Ghent, where his wife visited him several times. He was then transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he had to work in inhumane conditions and where many prisoners died of hardship and disease. Julien died in Elrich Northausen (D) between October 1, 1944 and February 28, 1945.