Soendastraat 14

With these stumbling blocks we commemorate Eduard and Klara Adelaar-Van Huiden. They ended their lives under pressure from the circumstances on April 8, 1943 in their home at Soendastraat 14. Eduard was 70, Klara was 67 years old. **

Eduard Adelaar was born on March 8, 1873 in Gorinchem. On December 27, 1907, he married his cousin Klara van Huiden in Amsterdam. She was born on June 26, 1875 in Oude Pekela. Eduard and Klara had one child: Siegfried Emil (Sieg), born on January 23, 1909 in Amsterdam. In 1910 the family came to live in Zwolle, from 1937 on Soendastraat 14. Like many Jews, Eduard worked as a shopkeeper and traveling salesman all his life. Son Sieg followed in his father's footsteps.

Initially, the German occupier left the Jews alone. But a flood of anti-Jewish measures soon followed, aimed at further isolating the Jewish people. In early October 1942, the first major deportation took place from Zwolle. Two more followed in November of that year and in April 1943. On April 6 or 7, 1943, Eduard and Klara received the dreaded call to prepare for departure. By German order, April 10, all of Overijssel had to be "Judenrein".

Eduard and Klara decided not to report to the Zwolle station before leaving for Vught or Westerbork, nor to go into hiding. They chose to die at home together. According to post-war tradition, Klara was seriously ill and would not have survived hiding or staying in a camp. However, the couple have left no explanation themselves.

Around noon on April 8, 1943 they closed all doors and windows of Soendastraat 14. They sat down on a chair near the gas stove in the kitchen and turned on the gas tap. Warned police officers entered the house at night and found the couple lifeless. After their bodies were released by the public prosecutor, they were buried by unknown people on April 12, 1943 in the Jewish cemetery at the Kuyerhuislaan in Zwolle. After the war, gravestones were erected there for them.

On April 8, 1944 - exactly one year after the death of Eduard and Klara - their son Siegfried with his wife Alida Leanore (Sister) Groenman was murdered in Auschwitz. They went into hiding, but were caught. Their two daughters Dorothea Clara (Doortje) (1939) and Clara Catharina (Claartje) (1941) survived the war in an orphanage in Garderen. On September 13, 2015, they unveiled Stumbling Stones for their parents and grandparents.
In the years 1940-1943, more than 700 Jews in our country ended their lives under pressure of the circumstances. No numbers are known for the years 1944 and 1945.

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