Information: Wikipedia

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 Assebroek

August Derrestraat 47: MATHIEU HINOUL

Geervelde 56: LEON POLLET

September 21, 1943, Mathieu was arrested in class by the Geheime Feldpolizei or GFP together with his friend André Peuteman. Mathieu Hinoul, who was in possession of a pocket book with the names and addresses of the RVJ, somehow made this disappear. He has never ratted out one of his supporters.  He was taken without trial to the Sint-Gillis prison in Brussels on November 17, 1943 and to Essen on November 20 and to the German prison camp Esterwegen the next day. On February 21, 1944 he was transferred to camp Börgermoor, 12 kilometers away. In this camp people had to do heavy labor and were given inadequate and incomplete clothing, poor nutrition and were regularly abused. On March 13, 1944 he was transferred to the Groß Strehlitz correctional center in Poland and finally ended up in Gross Rosen on November 20. He was employed there in the laundry room and was given the prison number 396.B./82120. In the meantime he was already seriously ill and completely weakened.

On February 11, 1945, all the seriously ill were taken away on farm wagons to Bergen-Belsen. The journey started with 900 to 1000 sick people and lasted six days. Of these, only 300 arrived at their destination. Mathieu Hinoul also did not reach the final destination. He died on the way between Groß Rosen and Dora. His body was never found.

Mathieu's parents, Lambert Hinoul and Albertinne Pintelon, were also active in the resistance.

www.struikelstenenbrugge.be/mathieu-hinoul/

Leon Alfons Pollet, born on August 21, 1905 in Sijsele and married to Yvonne Schouteet. Together they had a son, Robert. Leon died of illness and deprivation in the Gross Strehlitz concentration camp (Strzelce Opolskie, Silesia), on June 17, 1944. 

Leon and his colleagues at the RTT had the opportunity to listen in on confidential conversations between German soldiers on the coast while they were working. Leon passed on information to his colleague Frans Welvis (died in Kaisheim concentration camp, Bavaria), other men from RTT were also involved in that espionage work.  Leon Pollet was arrested by the Germans on July 24, 1943. He was imprisoned in the Pandreitje prison, the prison of Bruges, from July 24 until shortly after October 25, 1943. Leon Pollet died in the infirmary of Gross Strehlitz on June 17 1944, from exhaustion and tuberculosis.

www.struikelstenenbrugge.be/leon-pollet/