Memorial Plates Transvaalbuurt Albert Wittenberg

On April 14, 2022, this plaque of the resistance fighter was unveiled on the Wittenbergplein in the Transvaalbuurt.
Albert Wittenberg himself lived on this square. He worked as a courier in the resistance during World War II. He also had Jewish Betty Mock, then a baby six weeks old, hide with him.
Albert Wittenberg was betrayed. After he was captured by the Nazis, he ended up in various concentration camps. He died horribly a day before the liberation; Albert Wittenberg was burned alive in a granary in the German Gardelegen.
On November 7, 2011, Albert and his wife Janna were posthumously awarded the Yad Vashem award and awarded to relatives of the family. The city council in Amsterdam determined the name of this park on January 28, 2020.

In Amsterdam, under the motto "Give Streets a Face", streets are provided with panels with the portrait of the namesake plus a short life course. In this way they want to give streets more personality. The initiator is Paul Fennis.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst
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