Date of birth:

June 27th, 1892 (Smallingerland/Friesland, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 1945 (KZ Ravensbruck/Uckermarck, Germany)

Nationality:

Dutch

Saakje van der Meer-Hoogeveen was born on 27 June 1892 and lived in The Hague during the war as a childless widow. She was forced to move because of the construction of the Atlantic Wall and ended up with the Becking family in Doesburg.

Saakje had a Jewish friend, and when this friend was in danger of being deported, she gave her fur coat to Saakje for safekeeping. Saakje, in turn, gave the fur coat to a fur shop for safekeeping. When the Germans confiscated the contents of this shop, they found Saakje van der Meer's name in the fur coat, which immediately made her a suspect. On 11 or 12 March 1944, the Doesburg municipal police arrested her at her home on charges of “aiding Jews”.

Via the prison in Amsterdam, she arrived at Camp Vught on 6 April 1944 as prisoner 0884. In September 1944, Camp Vught was evacuated and she was sent on a three-day train journey to Ravensbrück. Her camp number there was RA 66985. Saakje van der Meer eventually died shortly after liberation from the hardships in Uckermark, a subcamp of Ravensbrück.

On 25 April 2025, her now 86-year-old cousin laid a stumbling stone in the pavement in front of her former home in Doesburg.

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