Stationsweg 196
Sliedrecht
Teunis Ceelen was one of the Sliedrecht Merge hostages: young men who were arrested during a raid in reprisal for the killing of two NSB country guards.
The personal story of Teunis (Teus) Ceelen was told on October 21, 2015 by his youngest sister Greet van der Weijde-Ceelen (1938):
“We were home with eight children, five boys and three girls, of which I was the youngest. On the day of the Merwerazzia - May 16, 1944 - my two oldest brothers Jos and Teus were arrested at the Stationsweg at home. My parents and I were not at home, we were visiting my mother's family somewhere in the Land of Heusden and Altena. I was less than six years old, I can hardly remember anything about it. My sister Mieke was home that day, she was sick (pleurisy) in bed. She later said that Teus had run upstairs to get his bible and the photo of his girlfriend. Sister Mieke also got a hug from him and that was it.
My oldest brother Jos, who was almost two years older than Teus, was released in Kamp Amersfoort. Why don't I know exactly. My mother seems to have said to Jos when he came home: “Why didn't you bring Teus?” Those are words that lingered for a long time, because Teus was deported to Germany in July 1944 in Amersfoort and never came home again. . He died on November 10, 1944 in Lippendorf. I believe that we only received news of this in January 1945. Five years after his death - in November 1949 - Teus was reburied at the cemetery in Sliedrecht.
Because I was so young, I have few memories of my brother. I remember that he was very homely, very different from Jos, that was much more of a freebooter. Every now and then I was allowed to join Teus in his sailboat and I was very excited when we went very diagonally. That's pretty much the only memory I really have of him. And I still own the peak that Teus once bought from my mother for the Christmas tree. At home there was never talked about Teus and the war again. When I think about it now, I find it very strange, but I also think that given my age I was kept away from many things at the time. My mother died in 1978. Shortly before her death, we still talked about Teus and then she said: "Oh child, I still think about it every day." The same story with my brother Jos. At the end of his life, when he was already sick, he talked about the war. Very brief, but still. ”
During the war Teus lived with his brothers and sisters in the parental home at Stationsweg 196 (now number 198) in Sliedrecht. Gunter Demnig laid a Stumbling Stone for Teus on Saturday 28 April 2018 at 11.30 a.m. Deputy Mayor Hanny Visser gave a speech there and Anja van der Starre did that on behalf of the family. Mrs. Greet van der Weijde-Ceelen handed the stone for her brother to Demnig. She also laid the white rose with Henk Ceelen, the eldest son of her brother Jos.
Source: https://www.merwedegijzelaars.nl
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