Memorial Stone Stadsring 63 (was Wijersstraat 7)

One Memorial Stone was placed here on 23-05-2017 for:
* ARNOLDUS VAN DAAL (died 22-05-1945, Neustadt, aged 32)

During the war he was commander of the Boskoop Department of the Interior (BS) under the pseudonym 'Landman'. Arnoldus was arrested and was imprisoned from December 19, 1944 to March 6, 1945 in the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen and then until March 15, 1945 in Kamp Amersfoort. On that day he was deported to Germany and arrived in Neuengamme on March 18, 1945.
As the liberators approach, the prisoners are driven from the camps by so-called "death marches" to Neustadt – in the Lübecker Bight in northern Germany. There they are taken on board three ships, including the Cap Arcona, which would take the prisoners – who had survived the marches – to Sweden. But these ships are bombed by the Royal Air Force on May 3, 1945, killing more than 7000 people. Arnoldus is one of the survivors of the bombing, but after the liberation – on May 22, 1945 – he still succumbs to the consequences of the hardship in Neustadt.

Arnoldus is also commemorated on the war memorial in Boskoop.

This Memorial Stone lies here for a resistance fighter, arrested and died in 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 a known home address of the victims.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar + Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne
• Arnoldus van Daal | Herdenkingsstenen Amersfoort