Jewish Monument Bourtange

The Jewish Monument was erected in memory of 46 Jews from their village who were deported during the Second World War.

The plaque reads:

REMEMBER WHAT Amalek DID YOU...
...DO NOT FORGET IT. DEUT 25:17-19

IN MEMORY OF THE 46 DEPORTATES
OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BOURTANGE -
FLAG WEDGE FROM THE YEARS 1940-1945.

The 46 victims are:

Aleida Henriëtte Braaf, 19 years old; Juacques Braaf, 56 years old; Louise Aleida Braaf, 22 years old; Simon Abraham Braaf, 43 years old; Heiman de Beer, 80 years old; Betje van der Brug, 50 years old; Emma Frank, age 18; Fanny Frank, age 6; Jeanette Frank, 50 years old; Julius Frank, age 19; Louise Frank, age 4; Siegfried Frank, age 46; Regina Hes, age 68; Bertha Jacobson, age 38; Meier Jacobson, age 82; Hartog Kosses, 54 years old; Wiardus Gompel Kosses, 18 years old; Roosje Anna Levie, 5 years old; Tineke Florentina Levie, 9 years old; Moses Levie, 42 years old; Gholina Meijer, 6 years old; Goldina Meijer, 8 years old; Louisa Meijer, 13 years old; Marianne Meijer, 15 years old; Roza Meijer, 45 years old; Simon Meijer, 43 years old; Efina Mozes, 6 years old; Fokje Mozes, 33 years old; Moses Moses, age 75; Moses Moses, 9 years old; Roossien Mozes, 81 years old; Samson Moses, age 36; Eva Pinto, 60 years old; Rosalie Rothschild, age 75; Emma Sachs, age 23; Jacob Sachs, age 49; Louis Sachs, age 80; Nellie Serlina Sachs, age 46; Sophie Sachs, age 15; Meijer Salomons, 80 years old; Jetta Rebecca Schrijver, 31 years old; Saartje Valk, 41 years old; Levie Valk, 44 years old; Mozes Valk, 14 years old; Bartha Valk, 8 years old and Jantje Vrengel, 63 years old.

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