Stumbling Stone Egelantierstraat 122

This Stolperstein is placed for
Jacobus Lambertus Hordijk,
He was a member of the resistance and was shot on 7 January 1945 together with 9 other Dutch citizens. This was done as a reprisal after the murder of a German conscript who worked in the Marine Lazarett housed in the St. Willibrordus Foundation in Heiloo.
Jacobus Lambertus Hordijk is buried at the Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal in Overveen (section/row/nr 34)

These 10 by 10 cm brass plaques can be found in the pavement in front of the houses whose former residents, mostly Jewish, were persecuted and mostly murdered by the National Socialists. The names and the date and place (usually a concentration camp) where they were murdered are stamped into the small plates.

In many other towns and villages, especially in Germany but also in other European countries, these monuments can also be found, and their number, already many thousands, is still increasing. Almost all Stolpersteine were laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

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Source

• Text: Traces of war
• Photos: Ronald Schoenmakers