Monument and text in the "Spaarbankbos"
bij Hoogeveen.
Opdracht van de Rotary club Hoogeveen
onthuld op 25.2.2003
foto 3: © Peter de Kan
foto 7: tekst op ezel bij het monument. © albert geertjes 2003
foto 8: bank in staalplaat en eikenhout geplaatst tegenover het monument
foto 9: © Harry Cock
nearby Hoogeveen (NL).
Comm. Rotary club Hoogeveen
revealed on 25.2.2003
photo 3: © Peter de Kan
photo 7: text: © Albert Geertjes 2003
photo 8: Bench opposite The Monument / steel and oak
photo 9: © Harry Cock
in this forest
on this spot
the occupier killed
5 hoogeveners
august 1 1943
jonkheer de jonge
notaris mulder
and adriaan baas
august 3 1943
levie and manus van der wijk
today too
as you stand here
reading this
somewhere someone
is being raped
tortured
murdered
because he disagrees
because she is a woman
or because of
the colour of skin or heart
these words I wrote to be engraved in an iron plate which is erected nearby the monument, within 150 years they might have been rusted away. by that time I hope there will be no need for renovation
