Onderduikplek

In Leende there were of course more places where people in hiding stayed, including the address Strijperstraat 25. Another place where people in hiding stayed was where the pancake house on the Valkenswaardseweg is now. There used to be a few wooden barracks, including a boardroom. This was used as a hunting and holiday residence. During the war, the Bas de Gaaij Fortman sr. Family also stayed there. The family also regularly offered shelter to changing people in hiding in their holiday home and had to provide extra food. For this they went back to Louis Rutten. A family also stayed with the widow Willems - Bax at the Kleine Kerk. It was not until the liberation that it turned out that it was a Jewish family.