Jewish Memorial Kloosterhaar

Give me the courage to recognise injustice,
even where it becomes justified by use during the ages,
The strong will to never getting used to injustice,
Even if the power, to take it away, fails.

Jaqueline van der Waals

From early 1942 – during the Second World War -
Jewish fellow-countrymen were housed in labour camps
to do hard labour. On 2 and 3 October of the same year they were all
taken to Kamp Westerbork and from there deported to German extermination camps. Only few returned.

LABOUR CAMP ‘KLOOSTERHAAR’
‘We have to work hard, so you will understand, it is not easy, where everyone is working, lawyers and doctors, etc. We have landed in Kloosterhaar, close to the border, if you know what I mean.’
Quote from a letter of Louis de Jong, Kloosterhaar 16 July 1942
Louis died in Auschwitz on 31 January 1943. He was 21 years old

An information panel next to the memorial tells the story of labour camp Kloosterhaar.

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Source

• Text: Arjan Vrieze/Liesbeth Vrieze
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze