Tournai - 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.
Rue des Carmes 19
ici enseignait
DENISE DEBORAH
LEHMANN
nee 1908
exclue 1940
arretee 12.7.1944
deportee 31.7.1944
assasinee
Auschwitz
Rue des Carmes 19
here taught
DENISE DEBORAH
LEHMANN
born 1908
excluded 1940
arrested 12.7.1944
deported 31.7.1944
assassinated
Auschwitz
Denise Deborah Lehmann was born in Liège on November 1, 1908. She was a doctor of philosophy, language teacher, at the Ecole Normale de l'Etat in Tournai (1937-1940), she was expelled from school for being Jewish . She was put on the list in Kazerne Dossin on June 2, 1944 and put on transport XXVI leaving Mechelen on July 31, 1944, transport number 465.