Mariadorp - 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 Mariadorp

Rijksweg 258: CHRISTIAAN HUBERTUS JOSEPHUS PEUSENS


Rijksweg 258

hier woonde

CHRETIEN PEUSENS

geb. 1907

vermoord 30.12.1942

Sachsenhausen

Rijksweg 258

hier woonde

CHRETIEN PEUSENS

geb. 1907

vermoord 30.12.1942

Sachsenhausen

The Peussen family ran the café on the Rijksweg in Eijsden. It was a hotspot for the resistance. The whole family helped the Jews to escape and go into hiding. After being betrayed by a fellow villager, the two brothers Chretien and Martin and their sister Anna were deported. The last two survived the war. Chretien died in 1942 in camp Oranienburg.