Memorial "ALSO HERE"

The Folkingestraat in the center of Groningen runs from the Vismarkt to the Zuiderdiep. Until 1942 the street was the center of the Jewish quarter. In 1942, 2,450 Jews Groningers deported, in the following year further than 300. According to the population had the city in 1941 2.850 Jewish residents who met the definitions used by the occupier to be eligible for deportation . Only a dozen survived the concentration camps. In Folkingestraat were 191 Jewish residents.

The monument "ALSO HERE" is a brick embossed with the word "WEGGEHAALD" ("REMOVED") in memory of the Jewish people who lived here before the Second World War.
The text is placed on a side wall 10 meters high. Therefore, it is not immediately visible. from the street. It symbolizes that the memory has not disappeared, but has been moved to the margins. The text is machined from the facade and in brackets, which the emptiness and the loss of the old Jewish community symbolizes.

The relief is a transition area between the drawing and sculpture, which makes it possible to display. With a relief themes narrative again for this reason, the relief is therefore of Ancient Egypt to the present day, including those used by all ages, to give up important events report and clarifying religious motives.

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