Hoboken - 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 district of Hoboken
Commandant Weynsstraat 50: MEDART LEFEBVRE
Draaiboomstraat 53: FRANS DE ROECK
Goedentijdstraat 97: FRANS OST
Krekelstraat 1: ROBERT HANSEN
Commandant Weynsstraat 50
hier woonde
MEDART LEFEBVRE
geb. 1909
scheepshersteller
verzetsstrijder
gearresteerd 22.1.1942
geïnterneerd
gedeporteerd 1942
Mauthausen
vermoord 17.8.1943
Gusen
Commandant Weynsstraat 50
here lived
MEDART LEFEBVRE
born 1909
ship repairer
resistance fighter
arrested 22.1.1942
interned
deported 1942
Mauthausen
murdered 17.8.1943
Gusen
Draaiboomstraat 53
hier woonde
FRANS DE ROECK
geb. 1903
scheepshersteller
verzetsstrijder
gearresteerd 7.7.1944
gedeporteerd
Buchenwald
vermoord 20.4.1945
Goldenhöhe
Draaiboomstraat 53
here lived
FRANS DE ROECK
born 1903
ship repairer
resistance fighter
arrested 7.7.1944
deported
Buchenwald
murdered 20.4.1945
Goldenhöhe
Goedentijdstraat 97
hier woonde
PETRUS FRANS OST
geb. 1907
scheepshersteller
verzetsstrijder
gearresteerd 22.6.1941
geïnterneerd
gedeporteerd
uit Breendonk
vermoord 7.8.1942
Dachau
Goedentijdstraat 97
here lived
PETRUS FRANS OST
born 1907
ship repairer
resistance fighter
arrested 22.6.1941
interned
deported
from Breendonk
murdered 7.8.1942
Dachau
Krekelstraat 1
hier woonde
ROBERT HANSEN
geb. 1904
scheepshersteller
verzetsstrijder
gearresteerd 7.7.1944
gedeporteerd
vermoord 11.4.1945
Buchenwald
Krekelstraat 1
here lived
ROBERT HANSEN
born 1904
ship repairer
resistance fighter
arrested 7.7.1944
deported
murdered 11.4.1945
Buchenwald