Bust Leo Polak

This bust and memorial plaque of Leo Polak stand in the garden of the care home named after him.

Leo Polak was a Dutch philosopher, jurist and well-known freethinker and a professor at the universities of Leiden and Groningen. In November 1940, he was suspended by the University of Groningen because of his Jewish origin, against which he protested strongly.

The letter in which he strongly objected to this suspension ended up with the SD through the actions of its rector-magnificus, upon which he was arrested on 15-2-1941. Via various prisons, he ended up in Sachenhausen, where he died on 9-12-1941.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst