Stumbling Stones Mondriaanstraat

Thess brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
*JAN PIETER LEVER (born 1914, arrested, liberated and died 26 April 1947, Groningen)
*JAN LEVER (born 1922, arrested and murdered 21 July 1944, Eenum)

Jan Lever (born August 11, 1922) was director of Radiocentrale Sneek. His profession was a cover that enabled him to travel throughout the country for the resistance. This mobility allowed him to maintain contacts with the resistance in various regions. He was a member of the renowned Lever Group, which was involved in the distribution of vital illegal newspapers, including Vrij Nederland and Trouw. Jan Lever was killed at the age of only 21 during a firefight with the occupiers during a failed raid on the distribution office in Slochteren.

Jan Pieter Lever (born May 3, 1914) worked as a cashier and focused on providing direct assistance to victims of the occupation. He was involved in the National Organization for Assistance to People in Hiding (LO). Unfortunately, Jan Pieter was arrested on January 22, 1945, and taken to the dreaded Neuengamme Concentration Camp. Although he was liberated from the camp, Jan Pieter Lever died on April 26, 1947, in Groningen at the age of 32.

This Stolpersteine lie here for a resistance fighters, 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