Brederostraat 137

With this stumbling stone we commemorate Vrouwtje Marcus-Blom. She was 68 when she was murdered in the gas chambers of Sobibor on May 14, 1943. Her husband Jacob Marcus had died six months earlier, on November 15, 1942, in Zwolle. He was 76 years old. **

Vrouwtje Blom was born in Uithoorn on January 31, 1875 as the second child in the family of skipper Mozes Blom and Chrisje Gokkes. The family eventually has eleven children. She married on September 14, 1897 in Kampen to the traveling salesman Liebman Salomons (born 1864), who died in Amsterdam in 1925. Their marriage remained childless.

Vrouwtje remarries in Amsterdam on January 10, 1928 with Jacob Marcus from Kampen, widower of Roosje Meijer (1866-1924). Jacob already had an adult daughter, Aaltje, and an adult son, Eliazar. Mommy and Jacob must have known each other in a family. Jacob was in fact the brother of Eister Salomons-Marcus's sister-in-law.

Jacob comes from the Marcus butcher family from Zwolle and has been running the Friesche Vleeschhouwerij at 67 Oudestraat in Kampen since the end of the 19th century. From 1928 to 1937 he sits on the board of the Jewish Municipality of Kampen. After the butcher shop was transferred to the Hartog-Bollegraaf family, in March 1937 Vrouwtje and Jacob moved to 137 Brederostraat in Zwolle.

A photo of them has been preserved. Female poses - with a handicraft - smiling broadly for the camera. Still unaware of the fate hanging over her.

Like so many, Jacob and Lady also fall victim to the deluge of anti-Jewish measures by the occupying forces. They have to leave their home at Brederostraat and move to Sassenstraat 26 in early November 1942. Jacob dies on November 15, 1942, the day before the second major wave of deportation of Jewish people from Zwolle on November 18 and 19. He is buried on November 17 in the Jewish cemetery. Apparently permission had been obtained for this.

Mommy then spends a few lonely, sad, anxious months in Zwolle. She is ill at the beginning of December and will then be in the RK Hospital. She also has to leave in early April 43. Overijssel must become "Judenrein". On April 9 she is deported to the Vught concentration camp, where she stays for a month. She will arrive in Westerbork on 9 May. Her two nights are granted there, on May 11 she leaves for the Sobibor extermination camp. The train transports 1,446 people. Jozef Wins was the only one to survive. After the war he explains about the train journey: On the way there was cake with syrup and for the sick a few mattresses were put in the closed freight car. Upon arrival in Sobibor, he saw how those sentenced to death were brutally treated and driven to the gas chamber. Mommy was one of them.

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