Molendijk 25
Sliedrecht
Arie de Kluijver was one of the Sliedrecht Merge hostages: young men who were arrested in a raid as a reprisal for killing two NSB country guards.
The personal story of Arie de Kluijver was told in August 2015 by his brother Henk and sister Maartje:
“Arie was a skipper's servant during the raid of 16 May 1944. However, due to the war and the seizure of the ship on which he worked, he was temporarily out of work. To earn some money, Arie was employed by milk farmer Cees Koorevaar. On the day of the raid, he heard from a customer - about 500 meters from his childhood home on C 211 - what was going on that day. He then went home in mild panic as soon as possible. Before any plans could be made (for example, that Arie would hide somewhere), the German soldiers were already inside. He was taken before the eyes of the heavily shocked family present and they were brought to the meeting point at the Dutch Reformed Church. Later that day Arie was brought to the station with fellow sufferers for transport to Amersfoort. Our father had to bring some clothes to Camp Amersfoort some time later. He could hand this over to the gate without seeing his son. The rest of history is known.
The report of Aries's death did not reach our family until two months after his death. On a Saturday in March 1945, our sister Maartje (then 12 years old) met someone on the dike who told her. This man was probably informed via Henk de Jong, a Sliedrecht Merge hostage who worked as a Sanitäter in the German camps De Kippe and Alpenrose. He nursed many boys there and carefully recorded the deceased prisoners on sheets of paper. On January 11, 1945 he noted the death of Arie in Peres (24 km south of Leipzig) and he probably wrote something about it. The man who spoke to my sister had no idea that our family was not yet aware of Arie's death. In that ignorance he started a conversation about this with Maartje, who then understood that Arie was no longer alive. With the still unresolved grief of the death of another brother three years earlier (Piet, 13 years old), she ran home to tell the sad news to our parents. The liberation of the Netherlands two months later was therefore difficult for our family to see as a party. ”
During the war Arie lived with his brothers and sisters in the parental home at 25 Molendijk in Sliedrecht. There, on Saturday 28 April 2018, Gunter Demnig placed a Stumbling Stone for Arie at 10 a.m. Deputy Mayor Hanny Visser gave a speech there and Anja van der Starre did that on behalf of the family. Henk de Kluijver, a younger brother of Arie, presented the stone for his brother to Demnig. Aries sister Maartje placed a white rose.
Source: https://www.merwedegijzelaars.nl
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