Kaprijke - 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 city of Kaprijke

Plein 119: DANIEL STEVESYNS


Plein 119

hier woonde

DANIEL STEVESYNS

geb. 1922

in verzet

‘Geheim Leger’

gedeporteerd 13.4.1943

Dachau

bevrijd

Plein 119

hier woonde

DANIEL STEVESYNS

geb. 1922

in the resistance

‘Secret Army’

deported 13.4.1943

Dachau

liberated

Daniel Stevesyns was born on 19 December 1922, the son of Raymond Stevesyns and Zulma Matthys. He was married to Marie-Louise De Baets (12/02/1927 - 2000). They had four children. Daniel was a political prisoner during the war and was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. He died in 2004.