Memorial Stone Randenbroekerweg 8

One Memorial Stone was placed here on 26-09-2016 for:
* THEODORUS HERMSEN (murdered 18-04-1945, Neuengamma, aged 23)

Theodorus Hermsen was born on 1 April 1922 in Amersfoort. He was a civil servant at the Regional Labour Office and forged so-called Ausweisen. When these activities began to be noticed, he had to go into hiding at the end of 1944 on farmer Burgsteden's farm ‘Het Kwade Gat’ in Achterveld. On 29 December 1944, a German lorry loaded with a number of prisoners drove into the yard. A German jumped out of the lorry and began banging his rifle butt on the door. When Burgsteden opened the door, he was shot without mercy. His son Jan, who rushed over, was also shot on the spot. Hermsen was captured and taken to Wöbbelin. He died on 18 April 1945 in Camp Reiherhorst, near Ludwigslust, a sub-camp of Wöbbelin and Neuengamme. His camp number was 70944.

This memorial stone stands here for a resistance fighter who was arrested, deported and/or murdered in the World War II.

These memorial stones are located here for victims of National Socialism (Nazism). They are often placed as an alternative to the official Stolpersteine of the Gunter Demnig project. Where there is no Stolperstein but people still want to commemorate, a slightly different memorial stone or plague is used. The memorials are in most cases laid in front of the last known home address of the victims.

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