War Memorial The Bottom

The monument bore the names of 129 people from the Netherlands Antilles, including 11 Sabanes, who died during the war of 1940-1945. Most of the Antillean victims were seafarers who worked on oil tankers.
On December 19, 2021, the name of a 130th person, Thelma Esther Polak, was added. She was a Jewish nurse who was born on Saba in 1920, the daughter of a Surinamese/Jewish doctor who worked on Saba. She was killed in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in present-day Poland.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: TracesofWar