Memorials Gate to Memorial Place Haaren

On the gate to the former Polizeigefängnis und Untersuchungs Gefängnis in Haaren are various plaques and ornaments made in memory of the victims who are deceased in this prison.

On left monument this text:

A PLUMB BOOT
TRAMPLES YOU
YOU HAVE SIGHED
YOU HAVE STRUGLED
UNTIL FINAL DARKNESS
MERCY
HEARED YOUR COMPLAINS
SHE WORN YOU IN HER LAP
WHERE SUFFERING
IS THE HIGHEST LISTENER
J. ENGELMAN

Under this monument is a plaque with this text:

In memory of the Dutch who
in the vicinity were killed.
Petronella C. van de Bergh
* 16-03-1919 Vreeswijk + 13-02-1944
Arie C. van der Giessen
* 02-08-1916 Krimpen a/d Ijssel + 10-06-1944
Jan J. van Rietschoten
* 25-8-1921 Rotterdam + 10-06-1944
Unveiled on May 8, 2010 to mark the
10-year anniversary of the Memorial Place Haaren

Under the right monument hangs a memorial plaque with the text:

THIS MONUMENT AND THIS POEM REMEMBER
1940-1945
THIS BUILDING WAS USED BY THE GERMANS
FROM 1942 TO OCTOBER 1944
TO PRISON RESISTANCE PARTICIPANTS
IT COMMEMORATES THE MANY WHO WHERE
EXECUTED HERE OR AFTER TRANSFERMENT
OR DIED IN GERMAN CAMPS.
STAY ALERT. ONCE IS ENOUGH.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Lennard Bolijn