War Memorial Scharnegoutum

The memorial reminds the inhabitants of Scharnegoutum of six fellow citizens who died in 1945 as a result of acts of war.

The names of the six victims are:

M.Bruinsma, N.Bruinsma, D.Feenstra, P.A.Glastra van Loon, S.Hogeweg and D.W.Wiersma.

Marten Bruinsma was born on May 25, 1890 in Burgwerd and his son Nolle Wypke on October 31, 1919 in Tjerkwerd. On Wednesday, April 11, 1945, a group of people from the Dutch Interior Forces was busy building a roadblock. When the occupier suddenly appeared, the men fled. The German soldiers then entered Bruinsma's farm and shot farmer Marten Bruinsma and his son Nolle. Both were buried at the N.H. cemetery in Scharnegoutum.

Douwe Feenstra was born on December 31, 1897 in Hommerts. The farm worker was a member of the L.O. When he was sawing branches from a tree (for firewood) on Leeuwarderstraatweg on 4 April 1945, he was noticed by the occupying forces. Feenstra fled to the workshop of shoemaker Talsma, where he was shot dead by the occupying forces.

Pieter Anne Glastra van Loon was born on January 29, 1913 in Rinsumageest. He was a teacher at the Scharnegoutumer school for Christian Folk Education. During the occupation years, he joined the National Organization for Help to People in Hide (L.O.) in the municipality of Wymbritseradiel and, together with other resistance members, committed a raid on the town hall of Baarderadeel in Mantgum. Eventually he had to go into hiding on the farm of the Bouma family on the Leeuwarderstraatweg in Scharnegoutum. The Sicherheitspolizei raided here on 8 February 1945. Weapons and explosives were found in the yard. The farmer, his two sons and a person in hiding were arrested, but Glastra van Loon and his mate Röth managed to hide in a hollow space above a cupboard. When they came out of hiding four days later, they were arrested and shot on 8 March 1945 with three other people near Dongjum as a reprisal for an act of resistance.

Stefanus Hogeweg was born on August 1, 1923 in Kralingse Veer. He was a teacher in the Randstad. During the last winter of the war, he replaced a teacher in Sassenheim who had gone into hiding as a member of the resistance. In April 1945, Hogeweg wanted to visit his parents in Scharnegoutum, but he stayed with acquaintances in Nijkerk for a week on the way. On April 17, he was fatally hit by shrapnel there. He was buried at the General Cemetery in Nijkerk.

Dirk Wiggele Wiersma was born on December 31, 1917 in IJlst. As an engineer in the Dutch merchant fleet, his ship was torpedoed on February 27, 1942 during the battle in the Java Sea. Three people on board, including Wiersma, were able to swim. However, they were picked up by a Japanese ship, which handed them over to the Kempetai (Japanese state police). Wiersma spent three years in prison. On June 8, 1945, he died of diphtheria in Suskamiskin prison in Bandung. He was buried in the Dutch Ereveld Pandu in Bandoeng.

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Source

• Text: Bert Deelman
• Photos: Bert Deelman
• Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei