#Landmark
Here was the synagogue
It is 1947. The Jewish congregation is dissolved and joins Zutphen. 32 of the 39 Jewish people living in the village in 1939 were killed during the war.
After this all-time low, the synagogue dating from 1882 was sold and pulled down. Part of the Torah scrolls were burnt by the Germans. The remaining scrolls were transported to Israel after the war or divided among the Jewish congregations in the Netherlands. In 1965, the Jewish graveyard is also discontinued. The tombstones are moved to Zutphen in a respectful way.
Monument
The ‘Jewish Monument’ is a brick memorial wall in which a Star of David and a shofar – a ram’s horn used in Jewish worship – are embedded.
Levenslicht
In front of the memorial wall are several commemorative stones from the Levenslicht monument, which was commissioned by the National Committee for 4 and 5 May in 2020 to commemorate the Holocaust. The installation consists of a total of 104,000 fluorescent stones – representing the number of Dutch victims of Jewish, Sinti, and Roma origin who were murdered by the Nazis. After the national unveiling, each municipality received a portion of the luminous monument, so that together they form one national symbol. The stones refer to the Jewish tradition of placing stones on a grave instead of flowers.