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Jewish Memorial Middelburg

(Netherlands, the - Zeeland - Middelburg)

This monument was unveiled in the year 1954 and is located at the Jewish cemetery in the Walensingel in Middelburg.
The monument was erected in memory of the 72 Zeeland (Sealand) Jews during the Second World War by the occupying forces who have been deported and were killed in concentration camps.
43 of them came from Middelburg, the other came from Veere, Flushing, Goes, Terneuzen and Harries-Duiveland.

The monument consists of a concrete pillar, flanked by two large plaques, the column is surmounted by a Star of David.

The text on the left plate reads:
In remembrance of them, whose names are listed here, the Jews of Zeeland,
children of our people, who were killed in the years 1940 - 1945 by the enemy and were killed because they were Jewish. May their souls rest in shade of the Almighty.

The text on the right plate is in Hebrew and the following 33 names of the Jewish victims.

H. Alberg. H. Brokmeijer-Duveen. P.J.van Dam. R.de la Fuente-Cracau.
S. Alberg-Alberga. A. Canes. W.van Dam-Polak. E. Barkelau. S. Cohen. A.van Dam. E. Gokkes. L.M. Barkelau. J. Cohen. M. Fischer.
G. Gokkes-Keizer. S. Barkelau-Meijer. E. Cracau-Frank. I. Fonteijn.
B. Gokkes. B. Boasson. M. Cracau-Kesner.
H. Heertje. M.H. Boasson. D. Cracau. L. Frank. R. Hiegentlich.
B. Boasson-Sanders. S. Cracau-Ephraim. M. Frank.
S. Hiegentlich-Roozendaal. D. Cracau. S.L. Frank. S. Hiegentlich.