Stumbling Stones and Information Sign Prins Hendriklaan 48

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Truus van Lier (born 1921, murdered in Sachsenhausen 27 oct 1943)

Truus van Lier was a resistance hero and distributed illegal newspapers and weapons during the war. She also helped Jews find hiding places. On September 3, 1943, she shot dead the police commissioner (Gerard Kerlen) in Utrecht.
She was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen and shot there.

On April 22, 2023, a Stumbling Stone was laid in memory of Truus van Lier's mother.

It concerns DERKJE VAN LIER-WENSINK.

A description of her life can be read here.

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Source

• Text: Johan Tjallingii, Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1), Johan Tjallingii (2, 3, 4, 5)