Overboslaan 50

Esther Emma Aron -Zuckermann fled from Hamburg to the Netherlands in 1933. In 1938 her son Manfred Aron (born 1893) joined her. In the Municipality of De Bilt she lived at different addresses, probably always in a pension: Rembrandtlaan 65, Beethovenlaan 8, Paulus Potterlaan 20 and from April 10, 1941 she lived here, in the Overboslaan number 50. Mrs. Meulmeester was the main resident there and she has later offered several Jewish people in hiding in her house.

In 1941 the Jews in the Netherlands were increasingly restricted in their freedoms. In mid-1942, the Jewish residents of the municipality of De Bilt were forced to move to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam they had to deal with more far-reaching freedom-restricting measures. After a call to report, after a house search or after a raid, Camp Westerbork became the next station for them on the road to destruction.

That's how it went for Esther Emma Aron Zuckermann. On September 23, 1942, she is registered in Amsterdam, Roerstraat 111 two high and in December at the address Uiterwaardestraat 75 three high. It is not documented when she was deported to Camp Westerbork, but we come across her name on the list of people who were transported from Westerbork to Sobibor on March 23, 1943. Being locked in a cattle car crammed with people for three days must have been a miserable journey. There are no survivors from this transport, it is assumed that all were murdered in the gas chambers immediately after arrival on March 26, 1943. So is Ester Emma Aron Zuckermann, 79 years old.

Her son Manfred Aron survived the war and lived in this house at 50 Overboslaan until 1950. In the pre-war years he was a teacher at the Jewish community in Wiesbaden. In 1938 he became the unnamed rabbi of the many Jewish refugees from Germany. From 1942 he went into hiding in the Overboslaan 50 with Mrs. Meulmeester. He describes that he was hiding in a wall niche about 100 cm high, 80 cm long and 50 cm wide, behind a high washing commode. The Mensonides family lived here from 1959 to 2009 and they found this hiding place during a renovation. Manfred Aron passed away in 1968 and was buried in Israel.

There are also sources that describe that Salomon Heertjes, the chief rabbi of North Brabant, went into hiding in Overboslaan 50 . That means two rabbis in hiding at one address. Salomon Heertjes also survived the war.

Local residents here remembered a charismatic Jewish man with an impressively large beard who lived in this neighborhood.

By laying this stumbling block and by telling the story, we want to contribute to ensuring that Ester Emma Aron-Zuckermann and the unimaginably great injustice that was done to her does not fade into oblivion.

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