A survivor from Pekela (who I have been in contact with through the MyHeritage family tree website) and a distant relative, emailed me this link of a recent Holocaust memorial created in Pekela for every who was lost from Pekela in the war. See the pictures at the bottom of the link - several Gudema's and a Dalsheim were listed on the various plaques around the town.
http://www.prachtigpekela.nl/nieuws/14365/Stolpersteine-in-Pekela.html
Here is the English translation of the copy posted from the link above:
ReplyDeletePosted: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:20
Author: Editorial 104Media
Pekela - In the first 40 Pekela on Tuesday called Stolpersteine placed in memory to 151 residents who died during World War II. The stones are placed in the sidewalk near the homes where Jews and resistance fighters lived. The brass plaques were placed by the Berlin artist Gunter Demnig.
Memorials
There are traces of the Second World War in various locations in the present Pekela. Of course there was then inflated to damage the bridges over the Deep Pekelder and several houses and farms by war. This damage was quickly repaired after the war. Today the memory of the period between 1940-1945 in the municipality Pekela visible memorials: Eleven Pekelder war in various cemeteries, six war memorials and the initiative of the Working Group called Stolpersteine Stolpersteine Pekela to go places.
War
Some perished Brine managers got in and after the Second World War a war grave. These tombs are Pekelder various cemeteries to find where the entrance to the green sign hanging that says "Dutch war grave." These military personnel and civilians living in the Pekela's time, as a result of war in World War II in the Pekela's or elsewhere were killed and as such are registered with the Dutch War Graves Foundation in The Hague. The war graves are identified by the words "Fallen for the Fatherland".
War Monuments
Furthermore risen just after the Second World War until recently Pekela's various monuments in memory of all Brine managers who were killed in the period 1940-1945 or in wars and peacekeeping missions elsewhere to present:
Monument, Mayor Van Preventives Street to Old Pekela, unveiled May 5, 1949
Monument, in the former town to New Pekela, unveiled August 31, 1949
Resistance Memorial, cemetery Reformed Church in New Pekela, unveiled August 31, 1949
Jewish Memorial, Jewish cemetery, Draijer District 14 at Old Pekela, unveiled in 1950
Monument Cemetery Upper Pekela, unveiled May 4, 2011
Liberation Monument, the Old Town to Pekela, unveiled May 5, 2010
Stolpersteine
The working group Stolpersteine Pekela in 2011 started a project for personal memorials, called Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), to place. That happens in the street or sidewalk in front of houses in the Pekela where people lived during the Second World War by the hands of the Germans to have been killed. On 19 June 2012 the first forty Stolpersteine were placed at various places in the Pekela's.
The group sees this project as a complement to the existing war graves and monuments to the history and memories of the Second World War in the Pekela's final record. For more information please contact the chairman of this working group, Mr Andries Brans 0597-612930.