Monument Voorschoten
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This war memorial reminds the inhabitants of Voorschoten to the citizens who were killed during the occupation by acts of war and those who are killed later in other wars or in peacekeeping missions.
Waymark Code: WMFFRC
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 10/13/2012
Views: 10
The war memorial in Voorschoten is a pillar of French limestone from Euville.
The inscription at the monument reads:
'ZIJ DIE VIELEN (those who fell)
HENRYC A. ADAMSKY
LEENDERT BOUTHOORN
FRANCISCUS C.H. EVERSTEIJN
TEUNIS DE GROOT
FRANS W. KUSTERS
JOHANNES M. LAMBOO
ABRAHAM LIMBURG
WILLEM VAN MULLIGEN
HERMAN H. SCHOUTEN
JOHANNES C. WAGTENDONK
KOENRAAD M. WOLLESWINKEL
EVERT ZUIDMEER
1940 1945'.
In april 2012 five stone plaques are placed in front of the monument with the names of twenty-nine people with space for future additions. The plaques are in a straight sloping line, starting below ground level to several feet above the ground. The whole is surrounded by simple brick pavement.
At the plaques are the names of the killed Jewish citizens from Voorschoten: Moritz Bottwin, his wife Rosalie Bottwin-Platz, her sister Henriette Platz, and Merdachia Naymann at Sobibor, and Lewise Polak, Mauritz van Someren and Heintje Cosman in Auschwitz.
Also listed Marselus Solomon, who died on 10 June 1945 in Theresienstadt, 90 years old, and Philip Kopuit who on April 27, 1944 at his hiding place in Voorschoten from angina pectoris is deceased. He was secretly buried in the garden of his hiding place and after the war reburied at Muiderberg.
Furthermore, there are the names of the Java Sea fallen soldier, who perished in Japanese prison camps and soldiers who were killed in the former Dutch East Indies, as well as a number in or near Voorschoten by shelling and bombing killed civilians.
Property Permission: Public
Access instructions: The monument has been placed in the Burg. Berkhout Park near the town hall at the Koningin Julianalaan Voorschoten.
Website for Waymark: [Web Link]
Location of waymark:
Kon. Julianalaan
Voorschoten,
Commemoration: The citizens who were killed during the occupation by acts of war and those who are killed later in other wars or in peacekeeping missions.
Date of Dedication: Not listed
Access times: Not listed
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