Stumbling Stone Grotestraat 114A

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on dd-mm-jjjj, commemorates:
* GERRIT JAN DE GEUS (born 1902, arrested 28-1-1942, murdered 13-7-1942, Dachau)

Gerrit Jan first worked in a laboratory and later went on to study theology. His first congregation was in Zaandam, where he studied the books of theologian Karl Barth. In February 1940, he became a pastor in Almelo. Here, he urged people not to follow the Germans.
As he stood teaching in the catechism room on 28 January 1942, the Gestapo appeared and arrested him. First he was in Arnhem, where he gave consultations to other prisoners, then he went to Amersfoort, Essen and Würzburg, before ending up in KZ Dachau. Here he managed to survive for three weeks. At one point he could no longer sit, he had to lie down. This meant hospitalisation that led to his death.
His name is included in Memorial Book 35.

This Stumbling Stone is here for a resistance fighter, arrested, captured and murdered in World War II.

"Stolpersteine” is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the sidewalk in front of the last voluntary residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: “A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.”

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