Memorial Stone Celsiusstraat 12

Here in Amersfoort, one Memorial Stone were laid for:

JACOB SIMONSE, murdered on April 22, 1945 in Sachsenhausen.

Jacob starts working at the LO under the pseudonym Simon and becomes the main distributor of the illegal magazine 'Good morning here is London', published in Amersfoort. Things go wrong on 2 June 1944: the SD and the notorious policeman Lutke-Schipholt are waiting for him at a delivery address. Simonse and two other people in hiding are taken as detainees to the Amersfoort police station, and from there they go via the Sicherheitspolizei in Amsterdam and the prison in the Gansstraat in Utrecht, to Camp Vught.
On September 5, 1944, Camp Vught is evacuated in haste. In great haste, the occupier chases thousands of prisoners in cattle wagons by train to Germany. Simonse ends up in Sachsenhausen, where he is put to work at Cottbus, Lager Schwarzheide. In the morning of April 21, 1945, the SS begins to evacuate the camp and 33,000 of the 36,000 prisoners present have to march 20 to 40 kilometers to the northwest in groups of 500 a day. The prisoners who cannot keep up during this death march due to illness and/or exhaustion are mercilessly shot by the guards. That fate befalls Jacob Simonse on April 22, 1945, on his way from Oraniënburg to Neurüppin. His final resting place has never been found.


These memorial stone is here for war victims, deported and / or murdered in the Second World War. In Amersfoort, memorial stones are also awarded to resistance fighters who lost their lives.

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne