War memorial on the Brink
War memorial of white stone on the Kerkbrink in Rolde: a man carrying a water trough, with the names of war victims on its rim.
The memorial was made by Paul Grégoire of Amsterdam and unveiled on 14 May 1948. It commemorates the people who died in the fighting of May 1940, during the occupation or in the former Dutch East Indies.
Among them are twelve Jewish residents of Rolde. Eleven of them were murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 and 1943; Joachim Isaak Schaap died on 31 March 1944 somewhere in Central Europe. The trough names them by family: the families of the cattle dealers Aron and Bendix Schaap, who came from Lathen in Germany and lived on the Asserstraat, and the family of Israel Fiesler from Nooitgedacht, spelled Fischler on the stone.
- Aron Simon Fiesler
- Israel Majer Fiesler
- Masche Fiesler-Nachtgeist
- Aron Schaap
- August Schaap
- Bendix Schaap
- Fritz Schaap
- Joachim Isaak Schaap
- Leoni Julia Antoinette Schaap
- Sonja Schaap
- Milly Schaap-Simon
- Anna Schaap-Stein
Their names are also in the Digitaal Monument Joodse Gemeenschap in Nederland, the online memorial to the Jewish community in the Netherlands, with short life stories, family ties and addresses.
Also on the rim are:
- Frederik Klaassens, resistance member, shot dead on 8 April 1945 in Schoonloo
- Jantinus Klaassens, resistance member, shot dead on 8 April 1945 in Schoonloo
- Aeilko Venema, soldier Ekl.OVW.2-1-1 RI, killed in action on 17 January 1947 in Medan
- Geert van Schooneveld, soldier OVW.StCie 1-RJ, killed in action on 1 January 1947 in Padang
- Jan Hommes, merchant navy, died on 28 May 1942 in Long Isoen (Borneo)
- Otto Popkes, soldier M.C.-I-1 R.I., killed in action on 11 May 1940 in Wassenaar
- Jan ter Steege, soldier St.-III-14 R.A., killed in action on 12 May 1940 in Dubbeldam
- Hendrik Tjarks, died on 14 October 1944 in Zöschen, as a forced labourer
