Stolpersteine

 

Today we experienced a sad and emotional day.

 

 

My sister-in-law applied for the placing of three

stolpersteine

 

(stumbling blocks)

 

in the city of Dordrecht

in front of the house where her and my husbands

grandfather, uncle and aunt

had last lived

before they were taken away

and killed in Auschwitz.

 

Her and my husband's and two brothers'  mother Sofia

survived the war.

 

She had lived in that house with her father,

two brothers and sister,

their mother had died some years before the war.

 

 



She had married just before the war began

and had moved to Rotterdam

where she had her first son

(my husband)

Her oldest brother went into hiding

and survived too.

 

Her father, younger brother and sister

never came back.

 

For them

the German artist and initiator of  "Stolpersteine"

Gunter Demnig

placed three little stones

in front of their last home :

for us and everyone else

to remember.

 

Three great-grandchildren of Meijer De Liver

each gave a stone

which Gunter then put in the pavement

 

My sister-in-law held a short speech

and a friend finally

said kaddish

for Meijer, Mozes and Rosette

Amen