van Steenbergenlaan 50

At this location is a Stumbling Stone for: Abraham Walg born in Bergen op Zoom 8/16/1905 died in Ludwigsdorf 2/19/1944. Occupation: Manufacturers merchant.
At this location is a Stumbling Stone for: Ester Walg-Cracau born in Vlissingen 9-2-1908 died in Auschwitz 7-9-1942.
At this location is a Stumbling Stone for: Victor Walg born in Goes 16-10-1934 died in Auschwitz 7-9-1942.
At this location is a Stumbling Stone for: Marcus Walg born in Goes 11-10-1935 died in Auschwitz 7-9-1942.
At this location is a Stumbling Stone for: Aaron Walg born in Vlissingen 3-1-1937 died in Auschwitz 7-9-1942.
At this location is a Stumbling Stone for: Jacques Walg born in Terneuzen 24-10-1939 died in Auschwitz 7-9-1942.

Victor Walg was the oldest child of Abraham Walg and Ester Walg-Cracau. Victor lived in Terneuzen, but was born in Goes on October 16, 1934. After him, three more sons came into the Walg family: Marcus, Aaron and Jacques. Victor's father was a merchant. He offered his goods on the market in Terneuzen and on nearby markets. Survivors characterized him as a funny man who could sell literally anything. Saturday markets were skipped; the Walg family then celebrated Sabbath.

On March 24, 1942, all Jews had to leave the province of Zeeland. Victor, his brothers and his parents were also forced to leave for Amsterdam by train. No more than a suitcase of clothes.
In Amsterdam they were placed with an unknown Jewish family and a period of uncertainty, waiting and boredom began. That would not have been easy for the four young brothers.

On 3 September 1942, the entire Walg family came to camp Westerbork via the De Hollandsche Schouwburg assembly point in Amsterdam. The next day they all left with the transport to Auschwitz. Victor was seven years old when he was murdered in Auschwitz on September 7, 1942.

Abraham Walg was born in Bergen op Zoom on August 16, 1905 as the son of Marcus Joseph Walg and Debora Polak. On December 14, 1933, he married 25-year-old Ester Cracau from Vlissingen. Ester was the daughter of Victor Cracau and Engeltje Frank. At their marriage, Ester's father had already died, her brothers Aron and David serving as witnesses.

The young couple settled in Goes, where Abraham as a merchant in manufactures made a living. Ester soon became pregnant and on October 16, 1934 their eldest son Victor was born. A year later, a second son, Marcus, followed on October 11, 1935. Business, however, Abraham and Ester were in serious trouble. Two weeks after Marcus was born, the Middelburg court declared bankrupt Abraham Walg, a manufacturer in Goes, residing at 12 Papegaaistraat.

The Walg family then moved to Kloetinge, where Abraham and Ester and their two small children moved to Heernisseweg B 45. A year later, after the bankruptcy was ended without any payment to the creditors, they left for Vlissingen. Their third son Aaron was born there on January 3, 1937. The civil registry mentions De Ruijterstraat 7 as the residential address. However, that residence was also short-lived. In October of the same year, the Zeeland Courier reported that A. Walg and his family had settled in Sas van Gent. From there it went to Terneuzen in January 1939 where the Walg family moved into a rental home at 50 Van Steenbergenlaan. Here their last son Jacques was born on October 24, 1939.

On March 24, 1942, Abraham and Ester were forced to vacate this house. Together with their children they had to leave Zeeland and move to Amsterdam. Ester and her children died on 7 September 1942 in Auschwitz, Abraham died two years later in February 1944. Their house at 50 Van Steenbergenlaan was demolished in 1973.

Source: Katie Heyning

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