War memorial Doldersum - Doldersum

On 8 September 1944, three cars containing the camp commander of camp Vledder, two members of the Sicherheitsdienst, four agents of the State Police and two boys from squad 8, stopped at hiding place 4 in the Doldersum field. The nine boys, who had escaped from the Labour Service labour camp in Vledder, from den 4 were summoned to come out. Two of them were from the bat service and were spared because they had not voluntarily fled. The other seven were beaten and questioned about resistance and the location of the other three dens. When they could not give answers, all seven were blindfolded and executed. One of them, Roeland IJsselstein, miraculously survived the execution. Heavily wounded, he managed to get himself to safety, via a farmer of the resistance, a general practitioner from Appelscha and the hospital in Assen, he eventually returned to his home town of Gouda. Here he died on 23 November 1986.

The boys in the other dens knew nothing all this time. They were only taken out of their dens on 9 September and taken to other places, mostly farms in the area.
This monument on the site of hiding hole 4 is in memory of these terrible events and the six workmen who died here, all at the age of 18: Gerardus Marinus van Corstanje, David Oomens, Wilhelmus Kloonen, Jan van Dijk, Pieter Groenhuis and Christiaan van Tongeren.

A monument in the form of a large white cross was placed here back in 1948. Because the date on the monument and the number of victims mentioned on it were not correct, in consultation with, and at the initiative of, some of the survivors, a new and impressive monument was erected in 1995 with a memorial place for each of the victims.

Photo commemoration: Doldersum Monument Foundation.