Nieuwpoort - 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 Nieuwpoort

Pieter Braeckelaan 10: MARCEL BEUN


Pieter Braeckelaan 10

hier woonde

MARCEL BEUN

geb. 1910

weerstander

aangehouden 7.3.1944

gedeporteerd

Auschwitz

dodenmars

vermoord 7.4.1945

Pieter Braeckelaan 10

here lived

MARCEL BEUN

born 1910

resistance fighter

arrested 7.3.1944

deported

Auschwitz

death mars

murdered 7.4.1945

Born on June 1, 1910. He died on April 7, 1945 in Camp Ganäcker, having previously survived the horrors of Camp Flossenbürg and a death march. In May 1957 his remains were brought back to Belgium and handed over to the City of Nieuwpoort. After his death, it was revealed that he had been a member of the Belgian Military Resistance Organization since 1941 and also had ties to England.