Tienray - 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 Tienray

Spoorstraat 10: LOUIS VAN WEZEL


Spoorstraat 10

hier ondergedoken

LOUIS VAN WEZEL

geb. 1936

gearresteerd 1.8.1944

vermoord 18.10.1944

Auschwitz

Spoorstraat 10

here in hiding

LOUIS VAN WEZEL

born 1936

arrested 1.8.1944

murdered 18.10.1944

Auschwitz

Born in Amsterdam, 16 May 1936 – Died in Auschwitz, 18 October 1944. Reached the age of 8 years.

 

Victor David and Louis van Wezel were part of the more than a hundred Jewish children who were housed by the “Amsterdamsche Studenten Groep” in Tienray and its surroundings in North Limburg. Five of them - including Dick and Louis - were arrested during a raid on July 31 and August 1, 1944.