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Zeijer Strubben Resistance Monument

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Zeijer Strubben Resistance Monument

Name: Zeijer Strubben Resistance Monument
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Location: Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Netherlands

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Theo

June 23, 2022

In the Zeijerstrubben there is a monument on the spot where two resistance fighters were shot dead by the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) on 8 September 1944. It was Cornelia Johanna van den Berg-van der Vlis and Reverend Lourens Touwen. The monument consists of a few stones and a plaque with the text:

'Standfast remained
8-9-1944 executed
C.J.v.d Berg-v.d Vlis
(Annie Westland)
B.1892
Rev.L.Touwen,Makkum
B.1894'.

Cornelia van der Vlis (code name Annie Westland) was born in The Hague on 28 October 1892. Her husband led a resistance group in The Hague and was arrested in March 1942. He was to be executed on 29 July 1943 on the Leusder Heide. Cornelia had to move because the Germans were building a tank ditch. She went to Leeuwarden in March 1943. There she became involved in two resistance organisations: the OD (Ordedienst) and the LO (National Organisation for Assistance to People in Hiding). At the LO she was head courier and was active throughout the Netherlands. Her alias was Annie Westland, partly because she came from the west of the country.
She was arrested on 9 August 1944 after being betrayed when she attended a meeting in Utrecht. She was imprisoned in Assen and was interrogated in the notorious Scholtenhuis in Groningen. Eventually the Groningen SD ordered her to be executed.

Reverend Lourens Touwen also worked for the LO, in Wonseradeel. When a friend, who also worked for the LO, was arrested, Lourens Touwen first tried to persuade the SD to release him. This made Touwen himself a suspect and he went into hiding for a while. On 18 August he went to the SD with ransom money to try to free his friend in this way. He was arrested. The resistance made another attempt to free him, but this failed.

On 8 September Cornelia van der Vlis and Lourens Touwen were taken to the Zeijer Strubben and shot dead there by an SD officer. Their bodies were found by chance by a gamekeeper on 27 September 1944.

Cornelia van den Berg-van der Vlis is buried in the municipal cemetery Rusthof in Doetinchem. Lourens Touwen is buried in the cemetery of the Protestant Community in Makkum.
source: zeijen.nu/bezienswaardigheden/verzetsmonument-zeijerstrubben

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Monique

December 30, 2023

Cornelia Johanna van den Berg-Van der Vlis was born on October 28, 1892 in The Hague. During the occupation she worked under the pseudonym 'Annie Westland' as head courier in Friesland. On August 9, 1944, she was arrested in 'Huize Liana' on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht, where she had to hand in important papers. The address, the courier center, was occupied by the Security Service. A pass was found on her that the transport team from Utrecht would have to show in Koudum when they came to collect the loot from the second Workumer squat of August 3, which was ready there in front of the illegal distribution office in Utrecht. Westland was transferred to the Scholtenhuis in Groningen. Reverend Touwens also ended up there after he had tried to exonerate resistance member and teacher F. van der Velde. On September 8, 1944, Annie Westland and Reverend Touwens were taken to the forest near Zeijen, where they were shot by an SD man.

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