The UK’s first Stolperstein or “stumbling stone” has been installed in Westminster

A small brass plaque has been laid in the pavement in Golden Square, Soho to commemorate the life of former resident Ada van Dantzig, who died in Auschwitz.
Stolperstein – Photo (c) Westminster Council
Ms van Dantzig was a Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator working at the National Gallery who came to London in the 1930s and worked and resided in Golden Square in Soho, but later re-joined her family in the Netherlands. In early 1943, she was arrested in France along with her mother, father,