Stumbling Stone Emmastraat 1b

This Stumbling Stone commemorates:

KAREL ROOS, born 1899. Employed in Berlin and arrested on October 14, 1944.

Interned in Plotzensee and Sankt Georgen/Bayreuth. Survived the war.
This Stolperstein is located here for a resistance fighter.

Background information:
Committee Orange called itself a small group of Dutch people who were active in the resistance in Berlin. The founders were Karel Roos and Cornelis Hubers. Karel Roos was in his early forties when he left for Berlin as a socialist journalist in 1942. He did this on the advice of Lex Althof, editor at Volk newspaper and later the illegal Parool, who was looking for someone to help the resistance groups there. In Berlin, Roos came into contact with Cornelis Hubers, an administrator in his twenties, who had probably ended up in Berlin because of the Arbeitseinsatz and now he, like several Dutch people, worked at Siemens. In the meantime he had married a German woman. Together, Roos and Hubers were responsible for the Orange Committee, the small resistance group was involved in distributing leaflets and through the ties they had with illegality in the Netherlands, they had blank passports at their disposal. These passes were used in Germany to help fugitives leave the country. Due to a lack of materials, the group was unable to carry out armed actions, although it did make plans for this.

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