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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 Beselare

Spilstraat 52: ALOIS SCHOUTTETEN

                        MAURICE SCHOUTTETEN

                        GERMAINE SCHOUTTETEN

Wervikstraat 5: LEON MAES

Wervikstraat 48: MARCEL BOUCKENOOGHE

Aloïs Schoutteten, born on 13 February 1886 and married to Marie-Louise Dejonghe, a farmer by profession. In the early morning of 8 August 1944 he was taken from his bed as well as his sons Bruno and Maurice and taken away by German search agents. At the end of August he was put on a train in Antwerp together with many others to the Neuengamme concentration camp. There he went missing and was eventually declared dead. He was 58 years old. His sons also did not survive the same extermination camp.

Maurice Schoutteten was the son of farmer Aloïs and Marie-Louise Dejonghe. In the early morning of 8 August 1944 he was taken from his bed and taken away by German search agents. On Thursday 31 August he was put on a train in Antwerp to the Neuengamme concentration camp, together with many others, including his father and his brother. Three months after his arrest he was killed by an attack by the English on a foundry of heavy concrete pieces, sewer pipes, kerbstones, lampposts, where he had been put to work as a prisoner of war.