Memorial "Timeless is the Silence"

The monument "Tijdloos is de Stilte" is a plaque on the Gerrit van der Veenschool. Text on the plaque: [i]TIMELESS IS THE SILENCE..... SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1944, AN AIR RAID TAKE PLACE ON THE MAIN QUARTERS OF THE GERMAN SECURITY SERVICE (SD), HOUSED IN THE CHRISTIAN HBS AND IN THE GIRLS HBS (NOW SCHOOL COMMUNITY GERRIT VAN DER VEEN) IN THE FORMER STREET EUTERPES, NOW GERRIT VAN DER VEENSTRAAT. FROM THIS HEADQUARTERS THE DEPORTATION WAS ORGANIZED OF MORE THAN 70,000 AMSTERDAM JEWS. THERE WERE ALSO RESISTANCE INTERROGED AND TORTURED AND IMPORTANT DATA WERE STORED. THE CHRISTIAN HBS, AT THE ADAMA VAN SCHELTEMAPLEIN, BECAME COMPLETE DESTROYED AND THE GIRLS HBS WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED. IN THIS OPERATION - WHICH WAS CARRIED OUT BY 36 TYPHOON FIGHTING BOMBS- BRITISH AIR FORCE (RAF) THROWERS - SADLY ARE ALSO 40 RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DESTROYED. THIS WAS THE CORNER OF EUTERPESTRAAT AND ALBRECHT DÜRERSTRAAT FILLED WHERE 39 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF UNIDENTIFIABLE VICTIMS, IT IS CORRECT NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM THIS AIR ATTACK NEVER ESTABLISHED BUT TO ESTIMATED 54 CITIZENS WERE KILLED AND 14 WERE SEVERELY HIT INJURED. FIFTY YEARS LATER THIS COMMEMORATIVE PLATE WAS APPLIED. NOVEMBER 26, 1994.[/i]