Stumbling Stone Boterdiep Westzijde 51

This small, brass memorial plaque (stolperstein, struikelsteen, or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Jan Reinder Visser, born 1901, arrested 25 April 1944, murdered 25 April 1944, Zuidwolde.

Jan Reinder Visser was a warehouse worker and World War II resistance fighter who served as a courier. Records show that he was married. He was executed as part of the Nazi reprisal action for the murder by the Dutch resistance of a Dutch collaborator and leader in the German SS in the Netherlands, J. L. Keijer. Keijer died on 22 April 1944. The reprisal action first executed one man at home in Bedum and a teacher in Middlesum. On the morning of 25 April, Jan Visser was sitting with three other men in a café in Zuidwolde. The Nazis arrested all four and executed them that same morning. Each of the four is remembered with a stolperstein: Jan Reinder Visser here at Boterdiep Westzijde 51, Klaas Havinga at Boterdiep Westzijde 32, and and Cornelis G. G. Bos and Jan Kornelis Dwarhuis at Boterdiep Oostzijde 27.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

Borne was the first town in the Netherlands in which Stolpersteine were placed -- on 29 November 2007.

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Suzanne Matrosov-Vruggink (1), Suzanne Matrosov-Vruggink (2)
• Razzia in Bedum
• Groninger Archieven: Jan Reinder Visser
• Stolpersteine.eu