Stumbling Stone Boterdiep Westzijde 61

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

* Hindrik Huisman, born 1921, arrested 25 April 1944, deported 1944 from Amersfoort, killed 26 May 1945, Leipzig.

Hindrik Huisman, a gardner, was picked up on 25 April 1944 during a Nazi raid on several villages. This raid was in retaliation for the assassination by Dutch resistance of a Dutch collaborator working for the Nazi security police. Huismanand others were taken by train on 26 April 1944 to PDA Amersfoort. Between 25 April and 7 July 1944, some of the prisoners were released, but not Henrik Huisman. Then on 7 July, Hindrik and others were marched to the train station and deported to Germany. He was in Camp Schkopau, Schkopau, and in Camp Lippendorf, De Kippe. He worked at a factory in Böhlen/Lippendorf that made synthetic fuel from brown coal, and finally he worked in Camp Alpenrose, a labor education camp in Peres, 24km south of Leipzig. Alpenrose was started on 25 October 1944 and liberated by the Americans on 18 April 1945. Hindrik Huisman was liberated, but his maltreatment led to his death on 26 May in the St. Jakob Hospital in Leipzig-Dösen. He had just turned 24.

"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)
• Groninger Gijzelaars: Hindrik Huisman
• Rassia Beverwijk & Velsen Noord digitaal monument: Kamp Alpenrose
• Stolpersteine.eu