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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.

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 6 stumbling stones were placed in Sint Niklaas.

Tuesday 29 August 2023, 5 stumbling stones were placed in Sint Niklaas

List of Stolpersteine in the city of Sint-Niklaas

Spoorweglaan 32: JOZEF VERCAUTEREN

Veldstraat 89: MARIA RODRIGUS

                          RITA DYKERS

                          ALBERT DYKERS

Jozef Vercauteren was forced by the Germans to be sent to a labor camp in Arnastadt. There he became a member of a resistance group. However, he was caught and shot in early April 1945 along with other prisoners.

Resistance woman Maria Rodrigus and her captive-born child Rita Dykers died in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Policeman Albert Dykers, for whose wife Maria Rodrigus a stumbling block was already laid last year, was more fortunate. He was able to escape from a prisoner train after joining the resistance, just like his wife.