Four stumbling stones honoring the Jewish Aronius family were placed in front of the wrong house for almost 10 years in Zwartsluis, the Netherlands. Research showed the error of the municipality of Zwartewaterland and the stones were moved to the correct location.

Four stumbling stones in memory of the Jewish Aronius family lay in front of the wrong house in Zwartsluis for almost ten years. New research revealed the error of the municipality of Zwartewaterland.

Willy van Dorsten (81) lived in the same street as the Aronius family and previously reported about the incorrectly placed stones. His mother had told him after the war that the Aronius family lived at number 26 until 1942, writes RTV East. But the memorial stones were placed in the sidewalk in front of number 30 in 2013.

Van Dorsten knocked on the door of the Zwartewaterland Commemoration of Jewish Life Foundation. In collaboration with the archivist of the local historical society and an amateur historian, a renumbering list from 1950 of the then municipality of Zwartsluis surfaced. This list was probably not in the hands of the municipality of Zwartewaterland in 2014, the researchers say. As a result, the stones have been in the wrong place for more than nine years.

Van Dorsten moved the four stumbling stones together with fellow researchers Thijs Oosterhof and Barend Vinke. The memorials are now in front of the house where Wolf, Carolina, Aron and Sara Aronius lived until 1942. All family members were murdered that same year in the Auschwitz and Malapane concentration camps in present-day Poland.