This memorial commemorates 12 Jewish residents of the care institution for the mentally handicapped 's-Heeren Loo-Lozenoord, who were murdered in the Holocaust.
They were arrested on 10 April 1943, deported from Westerbork to Sobibor on 13 April 1943 and murdered on 16 April 1943.
The names are on the monument:
Rosa Blits
Frederica Lopez Cardozo
Willem Eysman
Herman A. Gosschalk
Benediktus Reindorp
Abraham Samson
Annie van der Sluis
Anna Rosina Smeer
Samuel Smeer
Michiel Swaalep
Sara Verduin
Anna M. van der Wiek
The victims were aged 20 to 45 years.
The monument also mentions the name of Kees Langendonk.
He was shot when he walked outside the grounds after curfew.
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