Memorial Reinkenstraat flat nr. 19

The text on the plaque has been arranged around a torn shopping list, this torn shopping list symbolizes the transience of life. Of 24 persons, their lives were thrown away just like a shopping list. The plaque can be found over the entrance of apartment number 19.

The text can be translated as follows:

The memory of the dead
is a second life for them.
Jean Bartour.

On March 22nd, 1943,
24 Jewish fellow citizens
were arrested on number 19
by the German occupational forces.
They were carried away
to Sobibor
where they were killed.

The disaster of the Reinkenstraat flat nr. 19 has become known by the Weinreb report of the NOID (the Dutch Institute for war documentation) and by an article in the Goudse Courant which was headed "the Achterhuis of The Hague". (This heading refers to the well known hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam).
The plaque has been placed on this address by the initiative of a former inhabitant at this address in the Reinkenstraat.

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Source

• Text: Mia van den Berg / Gem. Den Haag
• Photos: Pieter Mielen