http://www.destentor.nl/extra/de-laatste-dagen/bij-razzia-onderduikers-en-verzetsman-slachtoffers-1.4611696 by Benny Koerhuis - PART 9 - After the failed Operation Market Garden and persistent Allied bombing of the railway bridge Deventer, look in the fall of 1944, many residents of Arnhem and Deventer refuge at Sallandsestraat farmers. There are already many in hiding Jews, and men older than 17 years who must report different for Labor.The Germans of the war, which almost have to fight every adult man, a great labor shortage.Those who do not report voluntarily, is arrested.By force if necessary.

From the summer of '44 the occupiers keep frequently raids, organized raids on hiding.Picked up boys and men to work in German industry and agriculture, or assist in the construction of fortifications. For example, in Berlin and Hamburg, but through the 'Organisation Todt also along the river IJssel. East of the river lay the Germans since the summer of 1944 trenches, anti-tank ditches and foxholes on the IJssel line as an extension of the German West Wall, which is extended from Emmerich to the IJsselmeer

't Nijenhuis
After a raid on September 21 1944 at castle 't Nijenhuis at Wijhe where priests at that time also house hiding are arrested on 7 October 2000 in Rijssen men.Accompanied by soldiers with guns at the ready, the Rijssen Egyptians marching one day later Heeten Wijhe. Gade Beaten by the women of the village; the men are flocking into hiding after the beginning of October a German sound truck all men from 17 to 50 years called for Labor. On October 8, follows a raid, now in Heino. The fear is growing by the day, especially if the Germans on Saturday, October 14th hold a major manhunt between Holten and Heeten.
In the early hours of this' Black Saturday 'snatch from Holten men of the SS, Green Police, Country Guardians and' Schalkhaar managers (dreaded pro-German agents of the Police training battalion to Schalkhaar) in line towards the north.

Helhuizen in the hamlet at the foot of the Holterberg at Espelo, some hiding abroad among whom Letteler farmer's son Jan Marsman just potatoes. They run for their lives in a forest, along with the resistance fighter Jan Raalter Tielbeek who delivered ration cards so that the people in hiding to meet their basic needs.Take turns stabbing them in front of a meadow, Tielbeek. But halfway through the bullets fly all around his ears and Tielbeek let himself fall into a ditch. There he crawls through several locks to a farm and hides behind the straw. The Germans look there even later, and even poking with bayonets into the straw.But Raalte to have luck. ,, When the coast was clear, I saw that there were two bullet holes in my coat, 'says Tielbeek. ,, That could have ended very differently. ''

good German
Jan Marsman dares last crossing and crawling through a low-lying part of the pasture at a farm. He hides it in an oat mountain, but even there the Germans still looking. Marsman even discovered! "Good morning," he says, shaking with fear against the German, 'I'm just here to hear the work. " His heart pounding in his throat, but unexpectedly that German moves does back the oats and if he has not seen the terrified young man. "That was probably a good German!" Marsman concludes afterwards. While Marsman and Tielbeek still hiding, she heard shots again. In later turns Marinus Stevens is thereby affected deadly.This 18 year old young man from Apeldoorn, hiding on the farm of his uncle in the Helhuizen, running along a wooded bank tries to achieve onderduikershol the Helhuizen but is shot at 300 meters from the cabin safe. He found his final resting place at the general cemetery in Holten.

In memory of the unfortunate hiding, and out of gratitude that she survived the raid itself, Marsman and Tielbeek take more than half a century later, the initiative for a memorial. Exactly on the spot where Stevens was slain, the Haarlerweg, unveiled a boulder with bronze plaque in 1998. In 2006, a small boulder comes there with, in memory of two other fatalities from these raids.

One of them is Maurice Bachrach (26) from the end of 1943 with his brothers Ben and Simon absconds on several farms near Heeten and New Heeten. The Arnhem brothers, of Jewish origin, have hiding places and false identity cards with pseudonyms of two Raalter policemen. Maurice, alias "Henry Baker," given shelter at the Stro Kappe family to Portlander dike between New Heeten Raalte and the hamlet Schoonheten. A farm down is his brother Simon, who can hide in case of danger in a secret room behind his bedroom. As a farmer Stroo Kappe hiding Maurice on October 14 warned of the raid, he flees and tries to reach through a deepened ditch Simons shelter. His brother sees powerless to: ,, From the window I saw him running through a ditch, on the way he fell down a few times. I heard several shots, he was slain. ''

The known Deventer dialect writer Wim Lubberding as 12-year-old boy here also witnessed. Due to the heavy bombing of Deventer, the four children Lubberding storey family just moved in with the family Stro Kappe (mother Stro Kappe is a cousin of father Lubberding). Wim Lubberding see Maurice Bachrach is shot. ,, He fled through the haystack to an overgrown ditch, he already had a few days to deepening. I had him there too a few times helped. However, after about 20 meters, he came to the part that was not excavated and was visible to the Germans from various sides were shooting at him. Some soldiers were almost hit by their own colleagues. '' Bakker is first buried in the pasture, a week later at the general cemetery Raalte. In 2006 he gets his final resting place at the cemetery Loenen there under his own name.

The third fatality was 27-year-old Nijverdal resistance fighter Gerrit Jan Piksen.He has brought on early Saturday morning just two allied pilots and a Russian prisoner of war in safety if he is arrested in Haarle. He interrogated brutally at the village school. The then 14-year-old Jan Rodijk Haarle to see him lying on the ground, as he enters the school with a girl who wants to bring bread to her father also arrested. More dead than alive, Piksen is then wound up in a twiegbosje along Bathemerweg in Haarle. He is buried at the public cemetery in Hellendoorn. The approximately thirty men who were arrested in Haarle and surroundings, are employed in the vicinity of the Rhine at Pannerden and Zevenaar. dozens of men are also gathered at St. Joseph School in New Heeten.They also are involved in the construction of fortifications.