Stolperstein Laaghalerveen - Laaghalerveen

Agricultural farmer Lubbe Boxem was born on 1 September 1893 in Veenhuizen. Lubbe was married to Hillechiena Riks, with whom he had son Jan Tjark and daughters Lammechien and Albertje. During the war, the farmer decided to join the resistance in a Drenthe Knokploeg. As a member of the school board, he was able to shelter people in hiding both on his own farm in Laaghalerveen and in the school.

It was never known who betrayed him. But during a raid on 12 December 1944, he was arrested by the land guard and tied to the bonnet of a car. He was thus deported, as a deterrent to the people of Drenthe, to Groningen. Son Jan Tjark, 8 years old at the time, was able to follow this blood-curdling scene from the window of his school, although he was unaware at the time that the man on the bonnet was his father. A few days after father Lubbe's arrest, a raiding van arrived in front of the farm and the whole family had to leave the farm within half an hour.

From Groningen, Boxem was transported by train to the concentration camp in Neuegamme, Germany, where he arrived on 18 January 1945. He died there on 11 March 1945.

The site of this stolperstein, commemorating the resistance fighter, was not chosen by chance. It is now a military training ground for the Air Mobile Brigade in particular. But it was also the spot where the Boxem family's farm stood for many years.