Zuienkerke - 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 Zuienkerke

Doelhofstraat 3: LUCIAAN CAMIEL NEIRYNCK


Doelhofstraat 9

hier woonde

LUCIAAN CAMIEL

NEIRYNCK

geb. 1926

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 17.7.1944

gedeporteerd 18.7.1944

uit Beernem

vermoord 5.2.1945

Mauthausen

Doelhofstraat 9

here lived

LUCIAAN CAMIEL

NEIRYNCK

born 1926

resistance fighter

arrested 17.7.1944

deported 18.7.1944

from Beernem

murdered 5.2.1945

Mauthausen

Nurse at the psychiatric center of the Brothers of Charity. Lucien, a member of the resistance group A.B. with other members of the family, was arrested on the night of July 17 to 18, 1944 and deported. He died on February 5, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp.