It is no coincidence that Mulder-Boers is due to this stone. For the past eight years, she and volunteers from the Synagogue in Coevorden have found out for which Jewish victims of the Second World War a stumbling stone had to be in the city.
Before that they delved into family trees, archives, newspapers and almost all other conceivable historical sources. “In the beginning of the search you know a lot about the men, because the men often have a matter so they are sometimes in the newspapers. But you don’t know anything about the women and the children at first. We also found out more and more about that,” explains the historian from Coevorden. “You hardly think it is possible, but to our great joy I can say that we have learned a lot about these people.”
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