Stumbling Stone Brielselaan 182

This brass plaques (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 30-10-2024 on the pavement of the former home, commemorate:

PIETER NICOLAAS RICHARD DEKHUIJZEN (born 1891, deported 1942 from Amersfoort, murdered 19-09-1942, Sachsenhausen).

This Stolpersteine is lying here for a resistance fighter. murdered in World War II.

Family doctor Pieter Dekhuijzen, who was also the first club doctor of Feyenoord, practiced from 1920 until he was arrested by the Germans in 1942. According to his granddaughter, he performed various resistance activities, from the first day of the Second World War in the Netherlands: on 10 May, doctor Dekhuijzen refused to cooperate with the Germans during an incident in front of his door in which a Dutch soldier was killed. Later, the general practitioner, who was not Jewish himself, provided help to Jewish patients and civilians and spoke out against the institutions set up by the Germans, such as the Kultuur- en Artsenkamer.

After presumably being betrayed, Dekhuijzen was arrested in the spring of 1942 and sent to Camp Amersfoort. There, he paid for prescriptions for Jewish patients out of his own pocket, and treated patients himself instead of sending them to the German ‘Krankenbarak’. In the summer of 1942, the family doctor was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he died in September of that year at the age of 51.

"Stolpersteine” is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the sidewalk in front of a residence of victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the name of the victim, date of birth and the fate of these people. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: “A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.”

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne
• Pieter Nicolaas Richard Dekhuijzen, oorlogsgravenstichting
• Pieter Nicolaas Richard Dekhuijzen, medischcontact