{"id":197596,"date":"2026-05-04T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=197596"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:00:07","slug":"rsc-rvsv-leden-organiseren-dodenherdenking-in-kralingen-het-klinkt-cliche-maar-als-mijn-opa-er-niet-was-was-ik-er-ook-niet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2026\/05\/04\/rsc-rvsv-leden-organiseren-dodenherdenking-in-kralingen-het-klinkt-cliche-maar-als-mijn-opa-er-niet-was-was-ik-er-ook-niet\/","title":{"rendered":"RSC\/RVSV members organise Remembrance Day ceremony in Kralingen: \u2018It sounds clich\u00e9, but if my grandfather hadn\u2019t been there, neither would I\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Student corps RSC\/RVSV is organising the Remembrance Day ceremony in Kralingen for the tenth time on Monday. A six-member committee is responsible for three commemorations in the district. \u201cIt\u2019s special that I\u2019m doing this 200 metres from where my grandmother last saw her parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2025 Remembrance of the Dead at the Memorial Cross on Hoflaan in Kralingen.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the monument De Steen der Miljoen Tranen<\/em> on Oudedijk, the Memorial Cross on Hoflaan and the monument on Jan Vermeersingel, hundreds of people will gather at around 8.00 pm this evening to reflect on the victims of the Second World War. All commemorations take place from 7.45 pm to 8.30 pm. The ceremonies are organised by the Remembrance Day committee of the Rotterdam student corps RSC\/RVSV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Oudedijk, writer Marte Jongbloed will speak, author of the children\u2019s book 1300 bommen in 13 minuten <\/em>(‘1300 bombs in 13 minutes’) about the bombing of Rotterdam. \u201cI think it\u2019s wonderful and important that she passes on Rotterdam war stories to children\u201d, says the committee chair and master\u2019s student Econometrics Jet Stibbe (23). At Hoflaan, Ernst van Win from the foundation Na De Oorlog <\/em>will tell his account. \u201cHis father is from Katendrecht and was in the resistance. He was an Engelandvaarder<\/em>\u201d, Stibbe explains. His Jewish grandfather also survived the bombing and his Jewish uncle infiltrated a company in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various wreaths will also be laid by the district council, the police, several foundations and the student associations RSC\/RVSV and Laurentius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explanatory power<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Remembrance Day committee consists of fifth-year members of RSC\/RVSV who are responsible for the three commemorations in Kralingen. The corps has been doing this for ten years. Before that, the association was already involved, but in 2016 the municipality asked it to fully take on the task. \u201cSo we already had a script. The corps was allowed to give it its own interpretation\u201d, Stibbe says.
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From left to right: Suus B\u00f6cker, Micheline Leufkens, Hidde Bekke, Jet Stibbe and Tiddo van der Meulen. Ward Muris isn\u2019t in the picture.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Together with history student Hidde Bekke (23), she acted over the past year as the link between the committee and parties involved such as the municipality, the district council, the police and the scouts. Bekke is a born and raised Rotterdammer. \u201cAs a Rotterdammer, the war really is an important subject for me\u201d, he says. He has always had a strong affinity with history. \u201cI find its explanatory power fascinating. As is often said: those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law student Suus B\u00f6cker (24) is responsible on Monday evening for the photographer and practical matters such as the speakers\u2019 lectern, the set-up and the buglers. B\u00f6cker is very involved in the association through numerous committees and boards. She is now in her second consecutive year as a board member of the BeSt Foundation. \u201cThere I mainly have a managerial role. But I also wanted to create something myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organising a ceremony brings extra responsibility: \u201cAt a party, something can go wrong. Here, it cannot.\u201d For her too, history is close to home. \u201cA shell landed just in front of my grandfather but did not explode. It sounds clich\u00e9, but if he hadn\u2019t been there, I wouldn\u2019t be here either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandmother from Kralingen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Stibbe, who is from Amsterdam, the commemoration also has a personal connection. Her grandmother grew up in Kralingen. During the occupation, her grandmother\u2019s parents were arrested and deported. Her grandmother went into hiding in Dordrecht and returned to her old neighbourhood after the war. \u201cIt\u2019s very special that I am organising a commemoration about 200 metres from where my grandmother last saw her parents.\u201d Stibbe has a close relationship with her grandmother. \u201cShe finds it very special that I\u2019m doing this. During the two minutes of silence, I think of her and our family story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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