Historical information

The poem was written in 1942 by Jan Remco Theodoor Campert before he and seventeen other Dutch Resistance Fighters were condemed to death.
Jan Campert was a Dutch journalist ,theatre critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German Occupation of the Netherlands in World War ii he was arrested for aiding the Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp where he died in 1943.

Physical description

Wooden framed poem.

Inscriptions & markings

On rear of object - Donated by W.J.L. Verhoef Sen.
To honor those resistance fighters who offered their lives during the years 1940 -1945 so we could live in freedom and peace.
On the day of the official opening of this centre. September 26th 1987.