Stumbling Stones Proosdijstraat 15
'A HUMAN BEING IS FORGOTTEN ONLY WHEN THE NAME IS FORGOTTEN'
(Talmud)
Here in Beek two Stumbling Stones was laid on April 12, 2019 for:
url="https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/145105/salomon-meijers"]SALOMON MEIJERS, murdered on March 26, 1944 in Auschwitz.
BERNARD MEIJERS[/url], murdered on March 26, 1944 in Auschwitz.
These Stumbling Stones are here for Jewish war victims deported and murdered in the Second World War.
additional documentation:
As a soldier, Giel Lacroix had become friends with the furrier from The Hague during the mobilization
Herman Ringer. Herman was a Jew. Giel saw the danger and invited Herman into his house
to go into hiding in the Proosdijstraat. Herman also asked for help for his sister, his brother-in-law, and them
three small children Estella, Samuel and Benjamin Meyers. That help was provided. Herman Ringer, and the little one Samuel (5 years old) and Benjamin (2 years old) were given shelter Giel, his wife Katrien and their daughter. The three others people in hiding were housed with family in Eijsden
and Heer. Herman was hiding. The children came just on the street, under the name Kees and Bennie. She would be evacuees from bombed Rotterdam. Kees attended kindergarten in Beek. Little Bennie innocently told around the neighborhood that his real name was Benjamin, a dangerous namethose days. For safety reasons he was transferred to a fourth family from the
family circle of Giel Lacroix, in Stein.
At the beginning of 1944, an acquaintance of the Meyers family from The Hague talked her mouth off during a meeting party. This is how the police came on the trail of the six people in hiding. On March 20, the Gestapo did a raid in the middle of the night, simultaneously at the four addresses in Beek, Stein, Heer and Eijsden.Mrs. Lacroix had to watch as Herman Ringer and the then six-year-old Samuel were driven through thepolice officers were chased down the stairs. It was cold. She quickly put two more sweaters on Sammie over each other, and put a bag of ungreased bread in Herman's hands. On March 26 the group arrived in Auschwitz. The young mother and her three children were joined gassed upon arrival, the two men were registered as workers in the camp. They were young and strong, and survived the camp.
There are stumbling stones for Samuel and Benjamin in front of the house.
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Source
- Text: Dick de Bruijne
- Photos: Dick de Bruijne
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