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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.

Mojszek Ringelheim, born May 7, 1899, deported by the XVIth convoy.

Seindla Paiuc was born on September 20, 1914 in Rezina Targ in Bessarabia. Daughter of Moshe and Hava Tetelman and residing at 17 rue de Waroux in Liège. Seindla was a hairdresser and was arrested on September 24, 1942, detained in the Dossin barracks in Mechelen and on September 26, 1942 deported by the XIth convoy to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the same convoy as the Nemeth-Sabovic family and where she was murdered on the day of arrival, September 28, 1942. Her prison number during transport was 2717.

The young adolescent Marcel Mayer Bulka, born in Belgium on September 29, 1930, lived with his family at rue des Champs 229 in Liège.

During the German occupation, the four of them took refuge in France. The parents were arrested and detained in French camps and subsequently deported and murdered in Auschwitz.  The two children, Marcel and his little brother Albert born on June 28, 1939, were taken care of by the OSE (relief organization for children) and hidden in the colony of Maison d'Izieu in Ain.

The whole colony (44 children) and their monitors were denounced to the Gestapo led by Klaus Barbie, arrested on April 6, taken to the Drancy camp near Paris and deported by the 71st convoy to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Marcel Mayer Bulka was 13 years old when he was assassinated and his 5 year old brother Albert was the youngest in the colony.

Sources: Kazerne Dossin and La Maison d'IZIEU

The Nemeth family consisted of Strul, born December 19, 1900 in Slatina Seis Czechoslovakia, and his wife Sura, born in Romania March 16, 1905. They emigrated to Belgium in 1929 and three children were born: Frieda in 1931, Gilles-Jules January 15 1933 and Emile July 13, 1935.

In 1937 they were joined by Sura's sister, Blanka, born on September 13, 1919 in Selo-Slatina, a seamstress by trade.  The six family members initially lived in the Liège region. On the eve of the occupation, they took up residence in Outre-Meuse, a neighborhood on the right bank of the Meuse, not far from the heart of Liège.

At the end of July 1942 Blanka received a summons for "compulsory labor". She voluntarily goes to the Mechelen assembly camp in the Dossin barracks. From there she was deported by the 1st convoy that left Belgium on August 4, 1942.

The family therefore avoided the nights at home as a precaution. One Sunday, Frieda went to a children's colony where her brothers Jules and Emile would find her the following week. But on Thursday, the parents and the two boys were arrested during a large-scale raid organized by the occupation authorities in the Liège district. It is September 24, 1942. They are all transferred the next day to Dossin barracks and deported two days later by the XIth convoy, September 26, 1942. As for Frieda, she remains hidden on the Spa side.

Emma Goldstein, born August 20-25, 1876, arrested May 7, 1944 and deported by the XXVIth and last convoy to Auschwitz where she was murdered.

Jacques Goldstein born October 21, 1870, arrested on May 7, 1944 and deported by the XXVIth convoy. Also murdered in Auschwitz.

At n ° 229 Rue Grétry in Liège, lived Alec Bergman born April 30, 1931, having fled with his family to France, during the invasion of Belgium by the Germans.

He was arrested with his family and locked up in the Palavas -Les-Flots camp located in the south of France and then hidden at the Maison d'IZIEU.

Alec Bergman miraculously survived the round-up by the Gestapo in Lyon and led by SS Klaus Barbie.

At 164 Rue Sainte-Marguerite in Liège (a house that no longer exists) lived David Frydman born on December 25, 1905 and Hena Kierkowski, born on March 23, 1905 in Poland (Czestochowa and Przyrow). They emigrated to Liège in Tilleur in the early 1930s and then to Glain, where the family head worked as a hairdresser.

In 1942, when the Jews were deported from Europe, there were three children aged 14, 12 and 9 in the family. The name and address of David Frydman's father had been obediently handed over by the Liège municipal authorities to the Nazi occupier, who deported him to work on the construction of the Atlantic Wall at Camp Dannes-Camier before being transferred by the XIth convoy to Auschwitz.

His wife Hena Frydman-Kierkowski and his 2 youngest children, Szajndla - 12 and Charles - 9, were arrested at their home on September 11, 1942, while Frajdla, the eldest of 14 years old, was hidden at home by the neighbors.  They were sent to the "transit center" in the Dossin barracks in Mechelen and the next day deported by the IXth convoy to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Frajdla was arrested a year later, on November 21, 1943. She was deported to Auschwitz by the XXIIIth convoy on 15 January 1944, to which her father had in the meantime also been deported.  Only Frajdla survives a year of camp and the death march, while her father will succumb to it at the end of the war.

At 16 rue Vinâve d'Île, in the center of Liège, lived Aron Wolfson. He was born December 14, 1906 lived in Nowradowsk, arrested on August 26, 1942, taken to the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen and deported by the VIth convoy to Auschwitz on August 29, where he was murdered.