Stumbling Stones Hugo de Grootstraat 70

These small copper plaques (Stolpersteine or Stumbling Stones), laid on April 27, 2018, commemorate:

Marleentje Sanders,
born 1934, arrested 27-8-1943, murdered 5-9-1943 in Auschwitz
Bertje Sanders,
born 1939, arrested 27-8-1943, murdered 5-9-1943 in Auschwitz

On April 11, 2023, a third stone was laid here for:
Elly Sanders,
born 1932, arrested 27-8-1943, murdered 5-9-1943 in Auschwitz

Background information:
David and Clara Sanders lived in Haarlem, leaving their three children (Elly, Marleentje and Bertje) in hidding early 1942. Elly in Barchem and Marleentje and Bertje with the Hollebrands family in Sliedrecht. They made a different choice themselves and took to the streets with fake Identity Cards and without a Star. When they are arrested on 26 August 1943, Jew Hunter Engelbert Kobus wants to find out the children's addresses. David Sanders is severely beaten by Kobus and when mother Clara is also threatened with the same fate, he gives the addresses. Kobus himself goes to Sliedrecht the next day, and takes the children with him. Elly is also picked up. Joop Hollebrands goes to Amsterdam and manages to get the family out of the Hollandse Schouwburg and the kindergarten opposite. Only Elly stays behind. Unfortunately, they were arrested again after a few hours. The family was immediately deported to Auschwitz and murdered there on 5 September 1943.

The journalist Dick Verkijk has written a book about this family. "The sad fate of the Sanders family". Stones were also laid for this family at their original home address at Delftlaan 193 in Haarlem.

Stolpersteine / Stumbling stones:
"Stolpersteine" is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate the victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (trip stones) are small 10x10cm copper plaques placed on the pavement in front of the last voluntary home or hiding address of (mostly Jewish) victims murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim's name, date of birth, location (usually a concentration camp) and date of death. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives each victim an individual memorial. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: "A person is not forgotten until his or her name is forgotten."

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Stichting Struikelstenen Sliedrecht (1), Jan de Jager (2), Fedor de Vries (3), Peter Schipper (4, 5)
• https://www.struikelstenensliedrecht.nl/sanders-bertje/
• LIEMPT, A. VAN, Verzetshelden en moffenvrienden, Balans, Amsterdam, 2011.