Memorial Stone Rubensstraat 59

These memorial stones are here for war victims, deported and/or murdered in the Second World War. They are often placed as an alternative to the official Stolpersteine of Gunter Demnig's project. Where there is no Stolperstein but people still want to commemorate, this memorial stone is used. In most cases, the stones are located in front of the last known residential address of the victims.

In Amersfoort, the memorial stones are also awarded to resistance fighters who have died.

In Amersfoort on 23-11-2016 one Memorial Stone was placed for:

HENDRIK KOLKMAN, murdered in Camp Amersfoort on 24-11-1944.

Hendrik Kolkman had been a member of the resistance since August 1940. Part of his many activities, which ultimately killed him through betrayal, was the collection, transport, storage and distribution of weapons. He also did intelligence work and committed sabotage.

On November 23, 1944 he received a tip that treason had been committed (as it turned out later by Rolf Bell, a traitor infiltrated in the resistance). As a result, he went to the house of the policeman Klaas de Graaf to warn him and to remove the weapons stored there. When they arrived at the house, it turned out that under the leadership of the NSB police chief Van Asperen, De Graaf and others present had already been arrested and the SD was conducting a house search: he was therefore immediately arrested. After the house search had been completed, he was taken to his house in Rubensstraat, where a house search was also carried out and where weapons were probably found. He was then taken away on foot by 4 men to Kamp Amersfoort.

In camp Amersfoort he was interrogated and mistreated, but he remained silent. He was then shot dead. On August 28, 1945, Hendrik Kolkman was reburied at Rusthof on the Dodeweg in Leusden.

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne