Hartog Werkendam

In 2005 a mass grave from WW II was found at the Stuttgart airport. Hartog Werkendam is possibly among the thirteen Dutch Jews buried here. He was one of the Jewish prisoners at Kommando Echterdingen, near to concentration camp Natzweiler, who was set to work on the airport of Stuttgart late 1944. The remains have been properly reburied.
News letter of the War Graves Foundation 2005 (in Dutch)

A female friend of the Werkendam family wrote the following account to her parents in 1943:

‘… but when the moment came to say goodbye, Miss Werkendam suddenly started crying so terribly. “Oh”, she said, “God does allow things to go very far sometimes”. But shortly afterwards when she had bidden a touching farewell to everyone (to me she said: “do remember me especially to your mother” twice, an…