Memorial Hider Alverna

This is a boulder with a commemorative plate in memory of David van der Reis.

The Jewish David van de Reis was in hiding during the Second World War on a farm at Rakenbergseweg no 8 on Alverna. When collecting a forged identity card, he took an official stamp with him. With his own falsified document as an example, he had thousands of identity cards printed in Rotterdam with friends. He traveled through the country with the stamp and the fake identity cards to help the resistance. As Mario Talamini, he hoped to be an Italian.

During one of his travels, however, he was arrested in Apeldoorn on 8 May 1943. Despite torture to get information about the resistance, he never revealed his true identity. The resistance group to which he belonged was therefore not endangered. Because he was suspected of being Jewish, he was taken to Camp Westerbork and from there to Sobibor in Poland. There he was murdered on May 21, 1943.

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Source

• Text: Wijchens Nieuws
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze