List of stumbling blocks in Koekelberg

Stolperstein in Koekelberg

The list of stumbling blocks in Koekelberg includes those stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in the Belgian municipality of Koekelberg , the smallest of the 19 municipalities in the Brussels-Capital region . They remember the fate of Jewish people from this place who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, the stumbling blocks were initially relocated in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence, but this rule was often broken as the number of relocations increased.

Koekelberg

Koekelberg is one of the 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels-Capital Region , and with 21,774 inhabitants (January 1, 2018) on 1.17 square kilometers, the smallest municipality in this region.

Between 1942 and 1944, a total of 25,484 Jews (according to the Nazi definition, ie regardless of their religious beliefs) and 352 Sinti and Roma were interned in the Dossin barracks in Mechelen. They were deported in 28 transports to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, only five percent survived. Three of Koekelberg's residents were among the deportees who did not return. Stumbling blocks were dedicated to them.

Laying stumbling blocks

Illustration	translation	address	Life
	FRIMA CZIPIS LIVED HERE BORN IN 1901 RUSSIA ARRESTED 3/4/9/1943 ACTION ILTIS INTERNIERT MECHELEN DEPORTED 1943 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Omer Lepreuxtraat 30	Likvermann company , née Czipis, was born on June 6, 1901 in Proskurov , then the Russian Empire . She was married to Abraham Likvermann and was a housewife and mother of two sons: Jacques, born in Liège in 1920 , and Simon, born in Brussels in 1935 . At the beginning of September 1943 she was arrested together with her two sons as part of the Iltis campaign and interned in the SS assembly camp in Mechelen (Kazerne Dossin). All three were deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz on September 20, 1943 with Transport XXII B ; Likvermann's transport number was 744. She did not survive the Shoah , and the traces of her sons are also lost in Auschwitz. Her husband Abraham Likvermann survived.
	HANS SAUER LIVED HERE BORN IN 1906 GERMANY ARRESTED 8.10.1942 INTERNIERT MECHELEN DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Jules Besmestraat 57	Hans Sauer was born on June 26, 1906 in Zellerfeld . He was the only son of Paul Sauer (born 1878) and Martha, nee Katz (born 1885). He was a merchant and stateless. He was married to Madeleine, nee Alexander. The couple had one son: Pierre Paul, born on March 26, 1939 in Brussels. The family lived at Quai du Commerce 27. Hans Sauer was arrested on October 8, 1942, interned in the SS assembly camp in Mechelen (Kazerne Dossin) and deported to Auschwitz on October 10, 1942 with Transport XIII. His transport number was 291. Hans Sauer was murdered by the Nazi regime. His parents survived the Shoah . The father died in Koekelberg in 1946, the mother in London in 1968. The fate of his wife is unknown. The son also survived. Three grandsons of Hans Sauer were born in the 1960s and 1970s.
	ANDZEL ZYLBERG LIVED HERE, BORN IN 1900 POLAND ARRESTED 31.8.1942 INTERNIERT MECHELEN DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Schmitzstraat 12	Andzel Zylberberg was born on December 15, 1900 in Chęciny in the Holy Cross Voivodeship . He was stateless and married to Toba-Frajda Siwak. He is sometimes referred to as an assistant mechanic and sometimes as a knitwear dealer. He was arrested on August 31, 1942 and interned in the SS assembly camp in Mechelen (Kazerne Dossin). On September 8, 1942, he was deported from Mechelen to the Auschwitz concentration camp on Transport VIII . His number on the transport was 378. Andzel Zylberberg was murdered by the Nazi regime.

Laying data

The three stumbling blocks of Koekelberg were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on February 18, 2016.

See also

• List of places with stumbling blocks

Web links

Commons : stumbling blocks in Brussels  - collection of images

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website
• Pavés de Mémoire posés par l'AMS . Website of the Association pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thuis in Koekelberg: Een mens is pas vergeten als zijn naam vergeten is , February 19, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2019
2. ↑ In the copies of the typed transport lists, the official surnames of the wives acquired through marriage were subsequently deleted, so that only the birth names remained; the names of the respective husbands were handwritten next to them.
3. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : FRIMA LIKVERMANN , based on an entry in the list of names of the deportees in the Mecheln-Auschwitz collection 1942-1944 , accessed on November 17, 2019
4. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: SIMON LIKVERMANN , based on an entry in the list of names of the deportees in the Mecheln-Auschwitz collection 1942-1944 , accessed on November 17, 2019
5. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: JACQUES LIKVERMANN , based on an entry in the list of names of the deportees in the Mecheln-Auschwitz collection 1942-1944 , accessed on November 17, 2019
6. ↑ Kazerne Dossin: Frima Czipis, with photos of her and her sons , accessed on November 17, 2019 / July 12, 2020
7. ↑ Belgisch Staatsblad, year 1950, edition 23/24, p. 475 , accessed on November 17, 2019 / July 12, 2020
8. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names has two entries, both accessed on November 17, 2019:
   • HANS SAUER , based on an entry in the list of names of the deportees in the Mecheln-Auschwitz collection 1942-1944 , and
   • HANS SAUER , based on a report from his son.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Family tree of the Sauer and Waller families , accessed on November 17, 2019
10. ↑ Kazerne Dossin: Photo by Hans Sauer , accessed on November 17, 2019
11. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: ANDZEL ZYLBERBERG , based on an entry in the list of names of the deportees in the Mecheln-Auschwitz collection 1942-1944 , accessed on November 17, 2019
12. ↑ Belgisch Staatsblad, year 1949, edition 286, p. 9599 , accessed on November 17, 2019 / July 12, 2020
13. ↑ Fondation Auschwitz : POSE DE 31 paves de MÉMOIRE, 18 FEBRUARY 2016 , accessed on November 17, 2019

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