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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 Nederename

Robert De Preesterstraat 172: ROBERT DE PREESTER

Communal Cemetery Nederename

Robert De Preester was born in Melden on 1 December 1923 as the fifth in a family of 10 children. When he was 17, he worked as a miner in the “Charbonages du Bois du Casier” in Marcinelle.

During the Second World War, at the age of 19, he became a member of the resistance movement "Group G" (Groupement Général de Sabotage de Belgique) sector Charleroi 73 E. As a saboteur, he stayed for several months in "the Maquis of Senzeilles" where he was arrested on 16 February 1944 during a raid by the Gestapo of Dinant. He ended up in the prison of Charleroi.

On 25 February 1944 he was hanged in Breendonk together with eleven comrades. He was buried at the Tir National in Schaarbeek but on 8 July 1945 he was given his final resting place in Nederename with national honours.