Stumbling Stone Bothastraat 34

On March 31, 2023, a stolperstein was laid for Hendrik Bazuijnen.

The German artist Gunter Demnig started laying the first Stolperstein in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in 1997. There are now Stolpersteine in many countries. It is a reminder of victims of the Nazi regime in World War II. A Stolperstein is a concrete stone of 10 x 10 cm, with a brass plate at the top in which the name, date of birth and death and the place of death are punched. The Stolperstein is placed in the sidewalk in front of the victim's former home. Gunter Demnig thus gives each victim his own monument.
His motto is: 'A PEOPLE IS ONLY FORGOTTEN WHEN HIS OR HER NAME HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN.

Hendrik Bazuijnen was a resistance fighter. He was a typographer and worked for the communist publisher Pegasus in Rotterdam. At the Central Intelligence Service, the predecessor of the AIVD, he was known as a prominent communist. He was active in the resistance right from the start of the Second World War. He arranged the printing and distribution of the resistance newspaper De Waarheid. Shortly after Germany's invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa), the occupying forces arrested 400 communists on the night of 24 or 25 June 1941, including Hendrik Bazuijnen. He was imprisoned in camp Schoorl, in the winter of 1941 he was deported to camp Amersfoort. He was there until November 18, 1941. He was then transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. There he died on April 22, 1942.

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• Text: Clara Dubber
• Photos: Clara Dubber