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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.

Remi Lernout was arrested on September 24, 1942 for the illegal possession of a hunting weapon. He died in Flossenburg on January 29, 1945.

Jean Marie Monteyne was arrested on April 14, 1942 on suspicion of espionage and distributing illegal press. He died in December 1944 in Gross-Strelitz.

Edouard Vanhoof lived in Halluin and was arrested on April 29, 1942 as a member of the Menen resistance. He died on February 8, 1945 in Gross-Rosen.

Jules Slambrouck was a civil registry clerk. He recruited a lot of people to join the resistance. He was arrested on April 14, 1942. He was last seen on April 20, 1945 in the Bautzen camp.

Joiner Désiré Vanzieleghem was also a member of the resistance in Menen and lived on Oude Leielaan. He received weapons, ammunition and a broadcasting post from Jules Slambrouck, among others. Shortly before his arrest by the Feldgendarmen, he threw all the material into the Leie. That material was later fished out again by the Feldgendarmen. Désiré Vanzieleghem died at the age of 49 in the concentration camp in Gross Strelitz, Poland on September 24, 1944.

Maurice was barely 18 years old, worked as an accountant and was a member of the resistance in Menen. He was arrested on April 16 1942 for distributing leaflets against the German occupier, passed through several concentration camps before dying at the age of just 20 in April 1945 of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp north of Hannover.

Gizela Kleinbartova was born on February 22, 1916 in Raskovin in the north of the Czech Republic. “After her mother died, she left the parental home with her older sister Laura. They arrived in Antwerp on March 26, 1933,” Marc recalls. “Gizela worked as a maid for her uncle and later went on to work for diamond merchant Arthur Gluck and Ludwig Morice, also a diamond merchant. After her residence permit was not extended, she went to the Netherlands for a while, but she came back to Antwerp. She probably felt that the ground was getting too hot for the Jews and in early October 1939 she applied for a travel pass for England. However, she continued to live in Antwerp until the end of February 1941. Then she moved to Menen. Maybe she moved closer to the border to make it easier to flee to France.”

Gizela found shelter in the house in Rijselstraat 262, where she was arrested in 1942. “After her arrest, the Germans transferred her to the Dossin barracks in Mechelen. On September 26, 1942, she left our country, on Transport XI, with 1,772 Jews for Auschwitz. On arrival, the Nazis gassed almost all the people in her convoy, only 30 men were spared. Gizela was murdered on September 28, 1942, when she was 26 years old.”