Stumbling Stones Oranjelaan 47

Since 2015, several 'Stolpersteine' have been placed in Rijswijk in memory of deported Jewish residents or members of the resistance from Rijswijk.

Since April 11th, 2024, four Stolpersteine have been placed in front of the house on Oranjelaan 47.

They have been placed in memory of the brothers Piet, Pim and Nol Breebaart and their friend Albert Kleijn who died in the concentrationcamp of Neuengamme (near Hamburg) during World War II. The four men were members of the resistance.

Present at the laying of the tripstone were four generations of relatives, including Ank van der Put, the 95-year-old sister of Albert Kleijn, and Pim Breebaart, the son of Bram, the only one of the four brothers to survive the war.

The house at 47 Oranjelaan was home to a resistance group. On December 12th, 1944, during a raid, the four brothers and their friend were arrested. They were transported to Germany via the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen. Bram managed to escape during the transport and was therefore able to survive the war.

Stolpersteine are an initiative since 1997 by German artist Gunter Demnig. He began by placing the first Stolperstein in the Berlin's Kreuzberg district. Since then, there have been placed Stolpersteine in many countries.

The stones are a reminder of the Holocaust in World War II.
A Stolperstein is a 10 x 10 cm concrete stone, brass at the top in which the name, date of birth and death and place of death is stamped. The Stolperstein is placed in the sidewalk in front of the victim's former home.

Gunter Demnig in that way provided each victim his own monument. His motto is: "A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN HIS OR HER NAME IS FORGOTTEN".

The village of Borne was the first place in the Netherlands where Stolpersteine were placed on November 29th, 2007.

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Source

• Text: Pieter Mielen en Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Pieter Mielen
• https://www.historischeverenigingrijswijk.nl/nieuws.php