Stumbling Stone Oudestraat 133

This small, brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates a resistance fighter who lived on a farm on Vendijk 3 near Kampen:

* Marinus Post, born 1902, resistance fighter, shot 17 November 1944, Alkmaar.

Background
Marinus Post purchased a farm on Venedijk in 1940 and lived there with his wife, Annie Salomons, and teenaged son, Jan. Starting in 1942, he and his family helped dozens of Jews, including hiding them on the farm. In July 1943, the Kampen police raided the farm. He escaped, but his wife and son were taken to Vugt transit camp and then to other concentration camps where they stayed until the end of the war. Marinus Post went into hiding, using the name Evert. He first joined his brother’s resistance group (Knokploeg) then formed his own, called the Knokploeg Evert.

When the police found him in Amsterdam on 20 October 1944, he was sleeping with a pistol and a grenade a few hours after there had been a firefight nearby between two members of his gang and a German guard. He was interrogated harshly over the next four weeks but did not give any information. He was eventually put on a list of candidates to be executed in retaliation for killings. His turn came almost immediately: on 17 November 1944 he and 4 others were shot in retaliation for the assassination attempt against a man who had tried to infiltrate the resistance. They were buried in a mass grave in the dunes near Overeen.

He was reburied next to his brother Johannes Post in the Heroes Cemetery in Bloemendaal. On May 23, 1979, Yad Vashem recognized Marinus Post as Righteous Among the Nations.

"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: Joop van Dijk
• De Eerebegraafplaats te Bloemendaal (The Heroes Cemetery at Bloemendaal) - in Dutch
• Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations Database
• Stolpersteine.eu