Korte Steigerstraat 4
Zaltbommel
Arie Elburg and his wife Rozetta Pels lived a life that was drawn by the events of the Second World War. Arie, born on October 15, 1900 in Hilversum, was the son of Jacob Elburg and Elisabeth Zwelheim. He married Rozetta Pels in 1921, born on 1 June 1899 in Delfzijl. The couple remained childless.
Arie Elburg was a religious teacher at the Israelite congregation of Oude Pekela in the period from around 1920 to 6 March 1926. In April 1926 he was appointed pastor in Zaltbommel. After the German invasion in May 1940, Arie and Rozetta, together with the Koppens couple, left for IJmuiden in the hope of being able to escape from England. They were successful and arrived with a fishing boat in England. Then they traveled to India, where they arrived in September 1940 with the steamship Glaucus.
In India, Arie Elburg took up his role as a religious teacher. He was involved in the Jewish youth organization in Bandung and performed the first Jewish wedding blessing on Java on 28 September 1941 in Batavia. This happened in the house of the parents of the bride, there was no synagogue there.
After the raid of the Japanese in the region, Arie and Rozetta were interned in a camp. Arie died on April 19, 1944 in the camp from exhaustion. He was buried at the Dutch Ereveld Leuwigaja/Cimahi. Rozetta survived the war and returned to the Netherlands, where she died in The Hague on 2 February 1956. In a death advertisement that her brother -in -law Meier Elburg placed, her heavy path of life was discussed.
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