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Herman Salomonson
Herman Salomonson, also known as Melis Stoke, (March 24, 1892, in Amsterdam – October 7, 1942, in Mauthausen concentration camp) was a Dutch journalist, writer, and poet of Jewish heritage. In 1940 he was arrested by the German occupiers of the Netherlands and murdered in 1942. Biography Herman Salomonson was born in 1892 as the son of Dinah Wertheim, daughter of an Amsterdam banker, and Maurits Salomonson, child of a Jewish merchant family. He grew up in a wealthy, liberal environment. He initially studied at the Technical University in Delft. After the outbreak of the World War I, First World War, he broke off his studies and moved to Belgium, from where he reported on the war events for an Amsterdam newspaper. In 1915, Salomonson returned to the Netherlands and became editor of the weekly newspaper De Groene Amsterdammer. He gained notoriety through humorous “rhyming chronicles” of daily news and wrote his first novel. He published often under the pseudonym Melis Stoke, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolperstein Für Herman Salomonson (Den Haag)
A (; plural ) is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literal translation, Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'. The project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, Aktion T4, forced euthanasia, Nazi eugenics, eugenics, deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. , 100,000 have been laid, making the project the world's largest decentralized memorial. The majority of commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti#The Holocaust, Sinti and Porajmos, Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), The Holocaust in Poland, Poles, Persecution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
