Memorial Rehabilitation Salomon Walvis

On 10 April 2018, a monument to rehabiltate Jewish Amsterdam resident Salomon Walvis was placed here. Walvis had gone into hiding with his family in Horst and was liquidated at this location by members of the Council of Resistance on 15 July 1944.

As would later prove unjustified, he was suspected of being a danger to the illegality. Attempts to exonerate him after 5 May 1945 came to nothing. His body was initially buried at the site of the liquidation and reburied in the Jewish cemetery in Diemen in 1948.

On the initiative of the 4 May Horst Remembrance Committee, a new investigation was carried out upon which rehabilitation finally followed after more than 70 years and, apart from placing this monument, his name was also affixed to the Horst War Memorial.

The rehabilitation remains controversial for some relatives of the local resistance. However, the Municipality of Horst remains of the opinion that it took place on justifiable grounds

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Frank Overman
• https://floddergatsblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/de-rehabilitatie-van-salomon-walvis/