Stumbling Stone Bergsmastraat 16

Here lived:

Sietse Bergsma, born in 1901
Arrested on 21-2-1945
Shot on 9-4-1945 in Norg.

Drs.S.H.W.Bergsma was the first civil servant at the former municipality of Uithuizermeeden and it was expected that he would become the new mayor after the war.
He was a member of the resistance during the war and a great organizer of many robberies to get hold of coupons and other material that had to stay out of the hands of the enemy. At the end of the war he was arrested and shot at Norg.
The Bergsmastraat is named after him.

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Source

• Text: Bert Deelman
• Photos: Bert Deelman