1940 – 1945

In 1943

Three Jewish residents of the Johannesstichting are arrested, deported to Camp Vught and murdered shortly afterwards at the Sobibor extermination camp. Two of them were Mozes Ricardo (born 29 December 1881) and Rebekka Worms (born 21 September 1891).

Provenance This line was not in the typed document. It was looked up in public sources afterwards and added.

On this spot

Weteringplein

On 6 June 2025

6 June 2025

Three Stolpersteine are unveiled on the Weteringplein for the Jewish residents of the former Johannesstichting who were deported and murdered in 1943.

From a village with its own municipality to a settlement of Nieuwkoop war persecution of the Jews remembrance Researched later

1887

In 1887

Founding of the Vereniging Johannes Stichting by Dr J. Sasse.
The story begins earlier: the evangelist Smit took in children from the big cities at the Polderhuis, which stood at the crossroads in the village. Out of this came both the Marthastichting and the Johannes Stichting.
The aim was to run an institution for old and infirm people who could not keep themselves and were not cared for by their families – in its own words: "cast-out, uncared-for, dependent, old, weak or infirm persons, whether married or unmarried". Men and women lived separately at first.

The drainage and the rebuilding care Johannesstichting Researched later

1888

In 1888

The foundation stone for the Johannes Stichting is laid on the street then still known in common speech as the Dorpsstraat, now the A.H. Kooistrastraat.

The drainage and the rebuilding care Johannesstichting building From the typed document

1914

In 1914

Elim, the Johannes Stichting's annexe on the Kerkstraat where the women lived, burns down. There were no casualties.
After this fire men and women lived in a single building.

The twentieth century up to the war fire Johannesstichting From the typed document

1928

In 1928

The Johannes Stichting expands with a second house, Sterrenberg at Huis ter Heide.

The twentieth century up to the war care Johannesstichting Researched later

1940–1945

Between 1940 and 1945

The Netherlands Reformed manse opposite the Roman Catholic church on the Dorpsstraat serves as a Schreibstube, an orderly room, for the German troops billeted in Nieuwveen.

The Second World War war occupation From the typed document