Stumbling Stone Pastorieweg/Pastoriepad

On August 7, 2017, two Stolpersteine ​​were laid for:

Sako Huizinga
Born July 8, 1918 in Marum
Died 4 June 1945 in Amersfoort

Sako has been active in the resistance. He works in the town hall of Kantens and forges distribution cards and stamps so that people in hiding in Kantens and the surrounding area could eat. Huizinga is involved in the raid on the town hall in Kantens, in which distribution cards and identity cards are stolen. A day after the robbery, he is fired on April 25, 1944 by the NSB mayor and arrested by the Sicherheitsdienst. Huizinga dies in a hospital in Amersfoort.

His war grave is Niezijl, Rijksstraatweg cemetery.

Hendrikus J.A.C. Wittebol
Born January 18, 1920 in Capelle in North Brabant
Died May 16, 1944 in the dune area near Overveen Unmarried

Henk works at Kanten's town hall. As the first civil servant, he can listen in on telephone conversations from NSB mayor De Graaf and pass on important information to the resistance. Wittebol accommodates people in hiding and provides a duplicate key with which resistance fighters could open the safe of the town hall in Kantens in the night of 26 to 27 January 1944. Wittebol was also arrested after the raid on the town hall and transferred to the infamous Scholtenshuis in Groningen. Together with Marten Lijnema (also from Kantens) Hendrikus Wittebol is executed in the dunes of Overbeek on May 16, 1944 and buried in a joint grave.

Honorary cemetery, Bloemendaal.

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Source

• Text: Nico Nienhuis
• Photos: Nico Nienhuis
• Eemskrant.nl