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A-Tree and 'De Schaar' Memorial at the Second Hiding Place

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A-Tree and 'De Schaar' Memorial at the Second Hiding Place

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A-Tree and 'De Schaar' Memorial at the Second Hiding Place

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    January 2, 2025

    Along the yellow route through the Valtherbos you pass a plaque with a tree next to it in which the letter A is carved. This plaque was unveiled in May 2013 by the then 93-year-old Mr. Aaltjo Oldenburger. He was one of the aid workers who were closely involved in a second hiding place (the first hiding place is the well-known hiding place, elsewhere in the forest, which has been restored). Where you are standing now must have been the second hiding place. This was built because people thought that the first hiding place would be discovered. The second hiding place is no longer intact and therefore cannot be found.
    Oldenburger carved an A into the tree with a pair of scissors so that he could easily find the hiding place. Because Oldenburger was a textile worker at the time, he always carried the scissors with him. Thanks to his efforts, 16 Jewish people in hiding survived the war.
    The text on the plaque is by the Jewish writer and poet Otto Weiss.

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      Location: Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands

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