Stumbling Stones Boterdiep Oostzijde 27

These small, brass memorial plaques (stolpersteine, struikelstenen, or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Jan Kornelis Dwarshuis, born 1898, arrested 25 April 1944, murdered 25 April 1944, Zuidwolde.
* Cornelius G. G. Bos, born 1915, arrested 25 April 1944, murdered 25 April 1944, Zuidwolde.
Jan Kornelis Dwarhuis, a baker, and Anna Margaretja Vrugt married in 1927. During the war, he was also a leader in the Dutch resistance and he had people in hiding from the Nazis.

Jan Kornelis Dwarhuis, a baker, and Anna Margaretja Vrugt married in 1927. During the war, he was also a leader in the Dutch resistance and he had people in hiding from the Nazis.

Cornelius Bos, called Kees, grew up in a family where he had 7 brothers and sisters. He worked for Jan Dwarshuis as a baker’s assistant. Kees was not married. He was the nephew of Cor Stolwijk who was active in the Dutch resistance: Stolwijk developed a relationship with the collaborator J. L. Keijer and reported back on Keijer’s Nazi activities and plans.

With Stolwijk’s help, two resistance fighters shot Keijer, who died of his injuries on 22 April 1944. In reprisal, the Nazis executed a man at home in Bedum and a teacher in Middelsum. On the morning of 25 April, Jan Dwarshuis and Kees Bos were sitting with two others in a café in Zuidwolde. The Nazis arrested all four and executed them that morning – Kees Bos first. Each of the four is remembered with a stolperstein: Jan Kornelis Dwarhuis and Kees Bos here at Boterdiep Oostzijde 27, Klaas Havinga at Boterdiep Westzijde 32, and Jan Reinder Visser at Boterdiep Westzijde 51.

"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), Suzanne Matrosov-Vruggink (3), Suzanne Matrosov-Vruggink (4)
• Razzia in Bedum
• Oorlogsgraven Stichting: Jan Kornelis Dwarshuis
• Groninger Archieven:Cornelis Bos
• MyHeritage.com
• Stolpersteine.eu