Arlon - 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 Arlon

Avenue Nothomb 6: ALICE CERF

Place Hollenfeltz 26: LUDWIG HOFFMANN

Rue de Neufchâteau 26: LUCIEN BEHR

                                            JULIE BEHR-HOENEL

Rue Léon Castilhon 27: CAMILLE CAHEN

                                          IRMA CAHEN

Rue Marché au Beurre 28: GIZELA SCHABES-TEICHNER


Avenue Nothomb 6

ici habitait

ALICE CERF

née 1872

arretée 26.7.1944

internee Malines

deportee 1944

Auschwitz

assassinée

Avenue Nothomb 6

here lived

ALICE CERF

born 1872

arrested 26.7.1944

internated Mechelen

deported 1944

Auschwitz

murdered

Alice Cerf, born 23 September 1872, arrested 27 July 1944 and deported to Auschwitz by the last and XXVIth convoy.

The XXVIIth convoy was planned by the Germans, but the liberation of Brussels by the Allies prevented the departure of this convoy.


Place Hollenfeltz 26

ici habitait

LUDWIG HOFFMANN

né 1903

arreté 15.8.1942

deporté 1942

Auschwitz

assassiné

Place Hollenfeltz 26

here lived

LUDWIG HOFFMANN

born 1903

arrested 15.8.1942

deported 1942

Auschwitz

murdered


Rue de Neufchâteau 26

ici habitait

LUCIEN BEHR

né 1869

arreté 20.3.1943

interné Malines

deporté 1943

Auschwitz

assassiné

Rue de Neufchâteau 26

here lived

LUCIEN BEHR

born 1869

arrested 20.3.1943

interned Mechelen

deported 1943

Auschwitz

murdered

Rue de Neufchâteau 26

ici habitait

JULIE

BEHR-HOENEL

nee 1871

arretée 20.3.1943

internée Malines

déporté 1943

Auschwitz

assassinée

Rue de Neufchâteau 26

here lived

JULIE

BEHR-HOENEL

born 1871

arrested 20.3.1943

interned Mechelen

deported 1943

Auschwitz

murdered

Lucie BEHR, born June 24, 1871 and her husband Lucien BEHR, born October 4, 1869 and Rabbi in Arlon, were arrested on March 20, 1943. Transferred to Mechelen and deported by the 20th convoy of April 19, 1943.  

Mr. and Mrs. BEHR-HOENEL were well known and appreciated by the Arlones.


Rue Léon Castilhon 27

ici habitait

IRMA CAHEN

nee 1878

arretée 16.2.1943

internée Malines

déportée 1943

Auschwitz

assassinée

Rue Léon Castilhon 27

here lived

IRMA CAHEN

born 1878

arrested 16.2.1943

interned Mechelen

deported 1943

Auschwitz

murdered

Rue Léon Castilhon 27

ici habitait

CAMILLE CAHEN

née 1882

arrétée 16.2.1943

internee Malines

deportee 1943

Auschwitz

assassinée

Rue Léon Castilhon 27

here lived

CAMILLE CAHEN

born 1882

arrested 16.2.1943

interned Mechelen

deported 1943

Auschwitz

murdered

Camille, born August 18 1882, and her sister Irma Cahen, born October 7 1878, were arrested on February 18 1943 and transferred to the Dossin barracks in Mechelen where they stayed for 2 months. On 19 April 1943 expelled by the XXth convoy and murdered in Auschwitz.


Rue Marché au Beurre 28

ici habitait

GIZELA

SCHABES-TEICHNER

nee 1904

Pologne

arrétée 12.2.1943

déportée 1943

Auschwitz

assassinée

Rue Marché au Beurre 28

here lived

GIZELA

SCHABES-TEICHNER

born 1904

Poland

arrested 12.2.1943

deported 1943

Auschwitz

murdered

Gisela Shabes-Teichner, born in Poland on June 24, 1904. Arrested on February 12, 1943 and taken to the Dossin barracks in Mechelen, deported by the XXth convoy to Auschwitz and killed there.