Lock Annette Katan's hair

Annette Katan ends up as a young Hague girl in Groningen, on the run for the Germans. She is Jewish and finds shelter with the Bosker family. Under the pseudonym Ans de Groot, she is part of the family, alongside the seven other children. She is probably discovered after treason and taken to Auschwitz where she is immediately gassed.

The memory of this 17-year-old girl fades over time, until a hair lock appears a few years ago. Stored by mother Bosker during a regular haircut and then passed on to his son Arie.

In the Jacobus-kerk hangs a display cabinet on the wall with a scroll with the whole history of Katan. You can see the lock of hair in a box. A few hundred meters away is a boulder in which a picture of the tuft of hair has been carved. On this spot Annette got on the bus to her premature death.

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Source

• Text: Bert Deelman
• Photos: Bert Deelman
• Gedenksteen Annette Katan
• Joods Monument
• NOS Nieuws
• Boekje Annette Katan: Rene S. de Vries en Maarten Burggraaff