Memorial Window Shell Laboratory

This window in Shell's former Research Laboratory (now Clink Hotel) commemorates employees of the laboratory of the then Batavian Petroleum Company (Shell) who died during World War II.

As far as is known, these are:

dr. Willem Coltof , Amsterdam 28-4-1906, Auschwitz 6-9-1944.
Jacob Vos, Beilen 15-6-1913, Sobibor 16-7-1943
Frederik Barend Jernberg, Amsterdam 9-9-1919, Amsterdam 5-5-1945
Hendrik Arnold Romp, Amsterdam 20-10-1897, Amsterdam 14-4-1945
Louis van Blijdenstein, Sittard 19-5-1915, Central Europe 15-3-1945
Daniel Albert Anne Weijs, Haarlem 26-9-1908, Neuengamme 20-11-1944
Pieter Dietrich, Amsterdam 6-4-1912, Delft 10-5-1940
Henry Frankfort (presumably) Amsterdam, 1-8-1920, Auschwitz 30-4-1943
Johannes Gesinus Smitt, Amsterdam, 4-7-1910, Amsterdam 8-3-1945
dr. Hijman Limburg, Amsterdam 10 July 1898, Auschwitz 30 October 1944.
Zeno Paul Polak, Amsterdam, 2 April 1888, Auschwitz 28 February 1945.
Egon Eichwald, Ruhrort 19 October 1883, Westerbork 16 March 1943.
Lambert Arnoldus van Altena, Hoge en Lage Zwaluwe 13-4-1916, Mittelbau-Dora 3-4-1945
J. Oudshoorn
Pieter Koster, (presumably) Amsterdam 23-10-1920, Majdanek 5-4-1944
Douwe Abraham Kloos, Goes 18-11-1910, Amsterdam 11-9-1945
Hans Jan de Vries, Delft, 8-9-1909, Grebbenberg 13-5-1940

The middle window features a crowned phoenix, a crane with young and a pelican trampling a dragon, with a text underneath: "1940 Thou art called to freedom 1945". In the two side windows are the names of the perished employees with the Dutch flag as a background.

This-and the two other stained-glass windows remaining elsewhere in the building-were made by the glazier Max Nauta.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst