Stumbling Stone Peizerweg 214

These brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:
*HESSEL JOHANNES NIJHOLT (born 1886, executed 26 October 1944, Groningen)

Hessel Nijholt was born on October 22, 1886, in Sint Nicolaasga. He lived in Hoogkerk, at Peizerweg 214. During the occupation, Nijholt joined the resistance and also took part in the 1944 railway strike.

His resistance work proved fatal. On October 26, 1944, Nijholt was arrested in Groningen by four SD officers. Instead of taking him in for questioning, he was executed in cold blood with submachine gun fire on the way to the car.

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

"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 residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the name of the victim, date of birth and the fate of these people. 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: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Bert Deelman