Stumbling Stone Rubensstraat 26

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed on 13-02-2017, commemorates:
* FRITS REINER BOVERHUIS (born 1915, resistance fighter, arrested 30-6-1944, murdered 16-7-1944, Overveen)

This Stolperstein lies here for a resistance fighter, murdered in World War II.

Boverhuis was one of the members of the Persoonsbewijzencentrale (PBC) around Gerrit van der Veen, which provided false identity documents for Jews in hiding and resistance fighters. Boverhuis was the one who pointed out that the Algemeene Landsdrukkerij (General State Printing Office) in The Hague had a large stock of materials for making identity cards. Together with several members of the PBC, he raided the Landsdrukkerij in The Hague on 29 April 1944. They stole materials for 10,000 identity cards.
On 30 June 1944, Boverhuis and Badrian were arrested by the Sicherheitspolizei after a safe house used by the resistance was betrayed by Betje Wery.

Boverhuis was executed by firing squad in the dunes near Overveen on 16 July 1944 and buried in a mass grave. On 16 November 1945, his remains were cremated in Driehuis-Westerveld.


"Stolpersteine” is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the sidewalk in front of a known residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: “A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.”

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Source

• Text: Dick de Bruijne + TracesOfWar
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne
• Frits Boverhuis | Wikipedia