Memorial Stone Stadsring 63 (was Wijersstraat 7)

Here in Amersfoort, on 23-05-2017, one Memorial Stone was laid for:

ARNOLDUS VAN DAAL, died on 22-05-1945 in Neustadt.

During the war he was commander of the Boskoop Department of the Interior (BS) under the pseudonym 'Landman'. Arnoldus was arrested and was imprisoned from December 19, 1944 to March 6, 1945 in the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen and then until March 15, 1945 in Kamp Amersfoort. On that day he was deported to Germany and arrived in Neuengamme on March 18, 1945.

As the liberators approach, the prisoners are driven from the camps by so-called "death marches" to Neustadt – in the Lübecker Bight in northern Germany. There they are taken on board three ships, including the Cap Arcona, which would take the prisoners – who had survived the marches – to Sweden. But these ships are bombed by the Royal Air Force on May 3, 1945, killing more than 7000 people. Arnoldus is one of the survivors of the bombing, but after the liberation – on May 22, 1945 – he still succumbs to the consequences of the hardship in Neustadt.

Arnoldus is also commemorated on the war memorial in Boskoop.

This memorial stone is here for war victims, deported and/or murdered in the Second World War. In Amersfoort, the memorial stones are also awarded to resistance fighters who have died.

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