Tamines - 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 Tamines
Rue du Roi Albert 24: THEODULE DUFAUX
Rue du Roi Albert 24
ici habitait
THEODULE DUFAUX
né 1901
resistant
armée secrete
arrêté 17.3.1944
déporté
Mittelbau-Dora
assassiné 9.3.1945
Nordhausen
Rue du Roi Albert 24
here lived
THEODULE DUFAUX
born 1901
resistant
secret army
arrested 17.3.1944
deported
Mittelbau-Dora
assassinated 9.3.1945
Nordhausen
Théodule Dufaux, born in 1901, was a resistant fighter to the secret army, he was arrested in March 1944, deported to Dora concentration camp and murdered in Nordhausen on March 9, 1945.