Memorial Razzia Beethovenstraat

"Razzias in Beethoven Street Amsterdam 1943 -1945"

"With force came
trucks arrived:
which put an end
to the children's existence.

Their eyes wide
without a single tear
they sat neatly,
the little ones in front.

There were also parents
no Jewish Council.
Death was waiting
for the children on the street.

Now 65 years ago
it remains with me
How my friends disappeared
and I stood by""

This poem by Hannie Ostendorf Voyles was placed in the sidewalk at the corner of Corelli Street and Beethoven Street (where she lived as a young girl at 15-I) on May 24, 2011. She is interpreting her memory of one of the many razzia's on Beethoven Street. "It must have been in 1943-44 that as children we were detained by soldiers with guns. I stood there and look at it." Hannie herself is half-Jewish; her grandmother was murdered in Auschwitz.

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Source

• Text: Willem Visser en Rick Hoogervorst
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst (1, 2), Philip Hozier (3, 4)
• katjakreukels.nl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Robert-Vuijsje.pdf