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Tamme Afman, a Dutch person in hiding during the Second World War, lived under risky conditions close to his family in Ten Post. During the war he often took refuge in the boardroom of a local school, a well-known hiding place near his parental home, the 'Witte Hoeske'. In August 1944 he returned to Ten Post for the celebration of his parents' 35th wedding anniversary, a trip made with the help of Pieter Wierenga, who drove a messenger wagon because the Germans had commandeered most of the vehicles.

On a fateful evening in 1944, Afman's parents' house was surrounded by the Landwacht under the leadership of commander P.K. Bunch. Despite attempts to flee, Tamme was arrested together with a friend, Hennie Stijve. The two were transferred to Camp Amersfoort, a transit camp that later served as a way station on their way to a more gruesome fate in Germany.

Tamme and Hennie were transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp and shortly afterwards to the Husum-Schwesing subcamp, where they were forced to work on the construction of a defense line known as the Friesenwall. The working conditions were barbaric, and many prisoners, including Tamme, succumbed to exhaustion, illness and abuse. Tamme died in November 1944 in Husum camp.

After the war, his girlfriend, Annie, waited in vain for his return. Ultimately, Tamme was reburied together with other victims of Husum in the cemetery in Loenen. His story, told by his sister Eilie, remains a somber testimony to the human cost of war and oppression.

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