*****We have reached our target to lay a Stolperstein for Ada. Please continue to donate to our fund so that we can help support the Wiener Library with a donation in Ada's name. Thank you to everyone who has helped make this happen!*****

Ada (Anna) van Dantzig was a Dutch paintings conservator. She worked with National Gallery Consultant Restorer, Helmut Ruhemann CBE, at his private studio in Golden Square, Soho, some time between 1934-39. At the outbreak of war in 1939 Ada left London to try to rejoin her family in the Netherlands. Her family were preparing to escape to Switzerland. Despite pleas from her friends and colleagues to stay in London Ada rejoined her family in Rotterdam. They left Rotterdam in early 1943. She was arrested in France along with her mother, father, sister Jenny and brother Paul. On 11th February 1943 she was deported from the transit camp Drancy to Auschwitz. She was murdered on the 14th of February 1943. Her parents were murdered on the same day. Her sister Jenny had been murdered on the 1st of February 1943. Her brother Paul was murdered on the 30th April, 1943. Her youngest brother, Hugo, was able to escape to Switzerland with his uncle, aunt and their two children.

The funds raised for this memorial will be used to pay Westminster Council who charge over £1k for the licence and supervision of the laying of the stone. Further funds are required to fund the travel and accommodation expenses of the artist Gunter Demnig who will supply and place the stone for Ada. Additional funds are required for a spare stone to be used if the original stone is damaged. Any surplus funds will be donated to the Wiener Holocaust Library.