Memorial B.M. Telders

This house has been given a memorial in memory of Ben Telders.

Benjamin Marius (Ben) Telders (1903–1945) was a Dutch legal scholar and politician, best known for his opposition to the dismissal of Jewish staff at Leiden University during the German occupation. He openly opposed this measure and attempted to mobilize staff and students. His stance led to his arrest on December 18, 1940.

Telders was subsequently held successively in Scheveningen prison and the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Vught, Sachsenhausen, and finally Bergen-Belsen, where he died of typhus in April 1945, shortly before liberation, at the age of 42.

In 1946, he was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: WW