Stumbling Stones Van der Vinnestraat 9

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:

family Hoek

The small copper plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

In many other cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, the memorials also can be found. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still counting. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

JACQUE'S CORNER
February 25th, 1880 (Goor) - April 23rd, 1943 (Sobibor)
VAN DER VINNESTRAAT 9
Jacques Hoek settled in Amsterdam in 1904. He was a construction engineer and traveling salesman. On 10 June 1908 he married Roosje Prins in Amsterdam. Later they went to live in Haarlem at 9 Van der Vinnestraat.
Transport from Westerbork to Sobibor 20-4-1943.
Murdered in Sobibor 23-4-1943.
He was 63 years old.

ROSE CORNER PRINCE
October 11th, 1881 (Arnhem) - April 23rd, 1943 (Sobibor)
VAN DER VINNESTRAAT 9
Roosje Prins was born in Arnhem, unfortunately her mother died shortly after her birth. Her father never remarried. She has lived with her father in different parts of the world. When she married Jacques on June 10, 1908, her father was in Chicago, from where he authorized the marriage by notarial deed.
Roosje and Jacques had three children, two sons and a daughter. Daughter Edina died in 1929 at the age of 17.
Transport from Westerbork to Sobibor 20-4-1943.
Murdered in Sobibor 23-4-1943.
She was 61 years old.

HENRY HOOK
March 9th, 1909 (Rotterdam) - May 21st, 1943 (Sobibor)
VAN DER VINNESTRAAT 9
Henri was an intelligent boy. He studied physics and chemistry and had been a physics and chemistry teacher since September 1935 at the Municipal Gymnasium in Doetinchem. He was a young and promising teacher, youthful with his pupils in their play, punctual in lessons and demanding of himself. In addition to his school work, he still found time to write a dissertation. His students liked him, for they knew what he was worth to them.
He was an example of diligence and a sense of study. He was noted among colleagues for his clear judgment and his camaraderie. The mobilization year of 1939 was difficult for him. A great bustle at school due to the absence of the rector he replaced and a mathematics teacher, whose replacement caused him great concern. He recovered from an illness that was undoubtedly the result of the tensions and in the new course 1940-1941 he was back at his post as before, with great ambition he fulfilled his work again. On November 22, 1940, as a Jew, he had to resign his teaching position. He energetically took what he could find. He went back to his parental home in Haarlem and found a useful job.
During his stay in Doetinchem he had met Anna Susanna (Anni) Wallach, a German refugee who had come to live and work in Enschede in 1933. They became engaged on December 29, 1941 and were married on February 26, 1942 in the synagogue in Enschede. Henri had to go into hiding. At that time he was still in good spirits: energetic, cheerful, serious, but not gloomy. When he had to leave from one address to another, he was picked up on the way and taken to Westerbork.
His wife wrote and illustrated the booklet 'Ha-ha, Ja ja', for Henri's birthday on March 9, 1943, with notes and notes about their lives. Anni survived the war.
Transport from Westerbork to Sobibor 18-5-1943.
Murdered in Sobibor 5/21/1943.
He was 34 years old.

THEODOOR ANDRIES HOOK
August 19th, 1925 (Haarlem) - June 4th, 1943 (Sobibor)
VAN DER VINNESTRAAT 9
Theo Hoek was an afterthought in the Hoek family. In September 1941 he was forced to continue his education at the Jewish Lyceum. The Nazis had ruled that Jewish students were no longer allowed to attend regular schools. From September 1941, all Jewish secondary school students therefore had to go to the Jewish lyceum, which was located at Wilhelminastraat 43a. (then called Schouwburgstraat by order of the German occupier). Theo came in class 5 of HBS-B.
Transport from Westerbork to Sobibor 1-6-1943.
Murdered in Sobibor 4-6-1943.
He turned 17 years old.

HEDWIG WALLACH-PHILIPS
May 5, 1877 (Ruhrort) - September 28, 1942 (Auschwitz)
VAN DER VINNESTRAAT 9
Hedwig had been the widow of Bernard Wallach since 1932. She ran the S. Wallach Wwe Sons cigar factory in Linz am Rhein after his death. There was also a store in Cologne.
After Kristallnacht in 1939, Hedwig fled with her daughter Charlotte Regina to her daughter Anni, who had already settled in the Netherlands in 1933. Hedwig lived with the parents of her son-in-law Henri Hoek. Both her daughters survived the war in hiding.
In Cologne there is also a Stolperstein in front of her former home, Wichterchstrasse 26.
Transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz 25-9-1942.
Murdered in Auschwitz 28-9-1942.
She was 65 years old.