Gronsveld - 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 town of Gronsveld

Stationsstraat 22: BINA SCHAAP-CANTHER

                                HEIMAN SCHAAP


Stationsstraat 22

hier woonde

BINA SCHAAP-

CAHNTER

geb. 1866

vermoord 14.5.1943

Sobibor

Stationsstraat 22

here lived

BINA SCHAAP-

CAHNTER

born 1866

murdered 14.5.1943

Sobibor

Stationsstraat 22

hier woonde

HEIMAN SCHAAP

geb. 1866

overleden 6.4.1943

Grunsveld

Stationsstraat 22

here lived

HEIMAN SCHAAP

born 1866

deceased 6.4.1943

Grunsveld

The Schaap family, consisting of 4 people, had to report to Vught. However, the old Heiman Schaap died in his own bed in Gronsveld. The son Alexander and his wife reported the death to the municipality and went into hiding immediately afterwards. Bina Schaap-Canther was an elderly woman suffering from dementia, she was arrested and taken to Sobibor and murdered there.