Memorial Jewish Resistance

This Memorial commemorates the Jewish resistance during the Second World War.

On the side is the text:

'WERE MY EYES
A SOURCE OF TEARS
THEN I WOULD CRY
DAY AND NIGHT
FOR THE FALLEN WARRIORS
OF MY LOVED PEOPLE'
(after JER... 8.23)

The initiator of the monument was the Jewish Resistance 1940-1945 Committee Foundation, which was founded in 1986. At the unveiling, Dick Dolman, the then chairman of the House of Representatives, stated: 'Both qualitatively and quantitatively, the Jewish resistance has surpassed the non-Jewish resistance. There was resistance by approximately a thousand Jewish resistance fighters, 500 of whom had to pay for their actions with their lives.

Every year the commemoration of Kristallnacht takes place at this monument, the night of November 8 to 9, 1938, when Jews were attacked throughout Germany. Almost all synagogues were set on fire, some 7,000 Jewish shops were looted and numerous Jewish properties were defaced. This Nazi-organized pogrom was the beginning of the carefully planned persecution and extermination of the Jews in Germany.

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne, Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1, 2, 3, 4), Anita Stargardt (5)