SCHULIM BÜRGER
Three small brass plaques lie in the paving beside the water, on the square near the old customs house. Sun catches their thin brass surfaces beside the quay. One commemorates SCHULIM BÜRGER, while the others carry Walter Gerson and Siegfried Gutmann, three Jewish men refused entry there.
He arrived in December 1938 after living in Vienna and was sent back to Copenhagen. German authorities later interned him at Drancy and deported him to Auschwitz in 1942. Gerson reached the quay in June 1939 and was expelled immediately, before being shot with his son and brother-in-law. His daughter later escaped to Palestine. Gutmann came through Amsterdam, was refused in December 1938, and was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor in 1943.
Gunter Demnig laid the three stones on 30 August 2022. Nearby schools care for them as living classroom memorials. Their low position places three names where desperate travellers once sought safety and received rejection. The smallest detail is their sudden metallic glint beneath your feet.
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