The plaque honours the people who ensured that more than 500 Jewish children were saved from the day care centre which stood to the right of the school building. The young Jewish children were housed there awaiting deportation. The day care workers smuggled them out, sometimes in bins, sometimes via the neighboring school. Whenever the tram passed through the street, the day care centre was temporarily out of sight of the guards outside the theatre.
In the Resistance Museum, resistance worker Semmy Woortman is quoted:
´When tram line 9 arrived, we would walk out the door, each with a baby under our arm. We ran alongside the tram and would get on at the next stop, completely out of breath’.
Illustration 1: Plaque commemorating de crèche (day care centre)
Illustration 2: Jewish children and nurses inside the day care centre.
