Stolpersteine

The Stolpersteine ​​are placed in memory of the Jews who lived during the Second World War in Heerlen and the victims of the Nazi regime.

Stolpersteine ​​is a project of the German artist and entrepreneur Gunter Demnig (1947, Berlin). He brings memorials on the pavement outside the homes of people displaced by the Nazis, deported, murdered or driven to suicide. This Stolpersteine ​​(lit. 'stumbling stone') remember to include Jews, Sinti and Roma, political prisoners, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and euthanasia victims.

The artist calls them Stolpersteine ​​because you tripped over your head and your heart, and you must bend to read the text.

The stones are in a brass plate, name, date of birth, deportation date and place of death and date stamped. The small stones (10 x 10 cm) were long time all made ​​by the artist himself and placed. Forced by the rapid development of the project, let him now supported by an artist friend. Incidentally, the stones are placed by municipal road workers.

The commercial Stolpersteine ​​project has been running since 1994. Until December 2013, there were 43,500 Stolpersteine ​​applied in a thousand towns and villages.

In the old core of Borne Twenty Stolpersteine ​​posted on November 29, 2007. This was the first Netherlands.

The Louis Foijer Foundation has taken the initiative in Heerlen to place in the sidewalk for homes from which during the Second World War, the Jewish people were deported. Stolpersteine ​​the Gunter Demnig

On August 23, 2013, the first 12 Stolpersteine ​​placed in Heerlen, with full participation of the municipality of Heerlen.

In the near future the first 12 Stolpersteine ​​will be extended to 66.

This image is a collage of the Stolpersteine in the city of Heerlen. I've made them at a walk along these Stolpersteine.