Sint-Kruis Brugge - 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 Sint-Kruis Brugge
Brieversweg 83: JACKY BARKAN
Kastanjelaan 4: EDOUARD ZIMMERMAN
Brieversweg 83
hier was ondergedoken
JACKY BORZYKOVSKI
‘BARKAN’
geb. 1938
bevrijd
Brieversweg 83
here was in hiding
JACKY BARKAN
born 1938
liberated
Jacky Barkan was registered in the birth register in Brussels as Jacky Borzykowska (his mother's surname). He was born on August 8, 1938 and died on June 28, 2014 in Israel. From the end of 1942 to the beginning of 1944 he went into hiding in the house of Jean (or John) De Meulemeeester and Josiane Sigart at Brieversweg 83 in Sint-Kruis.
Kastanjelaan 4
hier was ondergedoken
EDOUARD
ZIMMERMAN
geb. 1933
bevrijd
Kastanjelaan 4
here was in hiding
EDOUARD
ZIMMERMAN
born 1933
liberated
Edouard Zimmerman, born in Brussels in 1933 and died there in 1978, was hidden with Charles de Meulemeester. His older brother Gabriël Zimmerman lived clandestinely with sisters Madeleine and Marcelle De Meulemeester in Watermaal-Bosvoorde, near Brussels.