Memorial Stones Schimmelpenninckstraat 35

Three Memorial Stones were placed here on 30-04-2015 for:
* JACOB ENGELSMAN (murdered 26-1-1943, Auschwitz, aged 79)
* SOPHIA ENGELSMAN-HURWITS (murdered 26-1-1943, Auschwitz, aged 74)
* MARTINUS HENDRIKUS VAN DE WEEM (murdered 9-3-1945, Nordhausen-Dora, aged 44)

Martinus Hendrikus van de Weem was born on 24 March 1900 in Amersfoort. He was a typographer by trade. In 1925 he married Maria Johanna van Weerhorst. Together they had a son that same year, Lambertus Johannes Maria. During the war, from August 1942, the six-month-old baby Sjelomo Hamburger was safe in the attic with Martinus Hendrikus. Almost two years later, the boy is discovered and a few months later murdered in Auschwitz. As punishment, his shelter provider is taken to the Dora labour camp where he is forced to work under harsh conditions making German V-weapons. He dies there on 9 March 1945 at the age of 44.

These memorial stones are here for Jewish war victims and a resistance fighter who were persecuted, deported and/or murdered in the World War II.

These memorial stones are located here for victims of National Socialism (Nazism). They are often placed as an alternative to the official Stolpersteine of the Gunter Demnig project. Where there is no Stolperstein but people still want to commemorate, a slightly different memorial stone or plague is used. The memorials are in most cases laid in front of the last known home address of the victims.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Martin Damen
• Schimmelpenninckstraat 35, Amersfoort | Joodsmonument.nl
• Martinus Hendrikus van de Weem | Herdenkingsstenen Amersfoort