Stumbling Stones Frans Halsstraat 19

These 2 brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* HERMANN JACQUES JORDAN (born 1877, dismissed 1-4-1943 university Utrecht, in hiding in Wageningen, died 21-9-1943).
* NANETTE JORDAN-VAN WITSEN (born 1871, in hiding 1-4-1943 in Wageningen, survived)

These Stumbling Stones are here for Jewish war victims. Both in hiding in Wageningen, Hermann died, Nanette survived.

Jordan was suspended in November 1940, along with all Jewish professors. He got into trouble in 1941 due to an incompletely reconciliation statement: he did not know which religious communities his (grand)parents had belonged to, in other words to what extent he was Jewish or was not Jewish.

The Secretary General for Education assumed, pending further investigation, that Jordan was Jewish. He was discharged on April 1, 1943, while the investigation was still ongoing. But Jordan no longer waited for the result. He went into hiding with his wife in Wageningen, where he died on September 21, 1943, aged 66, of a brain haemorrhage. He was buried there with the help of the resistance. After the war he was reburied in Wageningen.

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