Memorial Execution 3 October 1944 Amersfoort

On this location two people were executed by the Germans, on 3 October 1944, as reprisal measurement.

Their names were:
Jac. P. Bunnik
G.C. van Hoften

Text on the Memorial:

EXECUTED
03-10-1944

JAC. P. BUNNIK -
BORN 11-04-1898

G. C. VAN HOFTEN -
BORN 21-06-1897

In October 2021, a plaque was placed on this site explaining the attack, the two men and the shooting.

The plaque has been placed next to the monument on Schothorsterlaan (Nijenrode) in Amersfoort. This monument was erected in memory of two people, Jacobus Petrus Bunnik and Geradus Cornelis van Hoften, who were executed here on October 3, 1944 by the occupying forces in retaliation for the murder of the lawyer and NSB member J. Frima.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Paul Wareman
• Photos: Paul Wareman