Dudzele- 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 Dudzele

Westkapelse steenweg 44: CYRIEL HUYS


Westkapelse steenweg 44

in Dudzele woonde

CYRIEL HUYS

geb. 1925

verzetsstrijder

gearresteerd 23.2.1944

Dudzele

gedeporteerd 12.6.1944

Gross-Strehliz

Buchenwald

bezweken april 1945

Westkapelse steenweg 44

in Dudzele lived

CYRIEL HUYS

born 1925

resistance fighter

arrested 23.2.1944

Dudzele

deported 12.6.1944

Gross-Strehlitz

Buchenwald

perished April 1945

Cyriel was a member of the Damme resistance group and he was betrayed by an infiltration of a spy. On February 23, 1944, the Dudzelen resident was arrested in his home base. He was transferred to the prison of Sint-Gillis and then transported to Germany on June 12, 1944. He is first registered in the Gross-Strehlitz penal prison in present-day Poland and then in the Buchenwald concentration camp.