Stumbling Stone Kloosterstraat 5

This small brass plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), commemorates:

JACOBUS BERKHOUT, born 1904, arrested 10-6-1944, died 31-5-1945 in Ravensbrück-Malchow.

Jacobus Hermanus Berkhout gave shelter in his house to the Jewish family Price. When he refused to reveal the addresses of other Jewish people in hiding after a raid by four Dutch Jew hunters from Amsterdam, he was arrested. Via Kamp Vught, he ended up in Sachenhausen and later Neuengamme. On 2-5-1945, he was reportedly still seen in Malchow sub-camp, but died between 3 and 31-5-1945.

The Price family was deported to Bergen-Belsen and was liberated by the Russians during a transport to Theresienstadt inTröbitz. They belonged to the so-called lost transport.

‘Stolpersteine’ is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (trip stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque bears the victim's name, year and place of birth (usually a Concentration Camp) and date of death. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: ‘A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.’

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