Stationsweg 32
Sliedrecht
Before the war, Miss (as you were called at the time if you were not married) kept Nederlof lodgers. The house was spacious enough and of course it also brought in some money. Her lodgers were usually people of Jewish descent. When the Jews were also obliged to wear the so-called Star of David in our country (with effect from Sunday 3 May 1942), the Germans took over Westerbork as a transit camp more than two years after the start of the war and the freedom of movement of Jewish inhabitants was further restricted. it is much more difficult to house the Jewish boarders. Actually, she should have shown them the door then. But she did not: formally there were no boarders anymore, but people could stay and in this way they actually went into hiding. It was generally known to the local residents that there were also “lodgers” at home. In all likelihood, one of those local residents also brought the case up.
13 Jewish “boarders” (including the Van Gelderen family) have been arrested. In the daily report of the Sliedrechtse police of Wednesday March 3 (on Thursday March 4) 1943 we read that at 11.30 am “police assistance was given at the arrest of eight of them by order of the German police, Devisenschutzkommando Niederlande, Aussenstelle R'dam, Parklaan. Jews, who, contrary to the relevant regulations, stayed at Miss Nederlof, Stationsweg 32 here. Two Jews fled when the German officials arrived. One of the Germans fired a shot but missed why the Jews walked away from van den Dijk. The remaining Jews were taken to the Police Office by the aforementioned officials. ” The eight arrested Jews were: Joseph de Raaij; Vrouwtje de Raaij-de Jong (wife of Joseph); David the Good; Julia the Good-Salomons (mother of David); Rosette van Aalst; Martha Kattenburg-Goldstein (sister-in-law of Antoinetta and Hester); Antoinetta Rosenau-Fles (sister of Hester) and Hester Kattenburg-Fles (sister of Antoinetta). Via the Red Cross it has been discovered that they all arrived on March 29 in Westerbork and were deported from there to Germany. Joseph and Lady were murdered in Auschwitz on September 17, 1943. The others happened in Sobibor on April 9, 1943.
Leentje was also arrested and transported to Buchenwald via camp Vught in 1944. There, shortly before the liberation, she was given the choice: whether she went to work in an ammunition factory or was deported to the women's camp Ravensbrück. She chose the latter because she did not feel willing to participate in the manufacture of ammunition. On February 28, 1945 (two months before the liberation of the camp by the Russians) Miss Nederlof died.
The Stationsweg 42 building was used after 1975 as a coffee bar “Het Luik” for Youth for Christ. An organization that also had a department in Sliedrecht during those years. The building was demolished in the late 1980s to make room for developments around the Bonkelaar.
Drechtsteden Hypotheken & Verzekeringen from Papendrecht has announced that it would like to finance Miss Nederlof's stone. A good example, which we believe should be followed.
Monday October 7, 2019 Gunter Demnig placed 12 stumbling stones in the sidewalk where "the saddest house in Sliedrecht" ever stood.
https://www.struikelstenensliedrecht.nl/
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