This Amsterdam neighborhood was once inhabited by Jews. None are left to celebrate its centennial.

Outside 58 Weidestraat in Amsterdam’s Betondorp district, two brass stones lie set into the sidewalk. Known by the Dutch as stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones,” the square plaques are engraved with the names of Jews who moved to this neighborhood upon its creation after the First World War and were deported during the Second. Herman Richard Bonn and Anna Bonn-Cauveren, 33 and 32 respectively, died at Buchenwald and Auschwitz — Herman just three months shy of Amsterdam’s liberation.

 

https://forward.com/culture/482214/amsterdam-jewish-neighborhood-betondorp-holocaust-world-war-two-centennial/

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