Died in Gunskirchen Death Camp
Graf 949343, Blaricum 0288
Camp Gusen
From 1938 to 1945 the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration camp was set up to the west of the town. Inmates were subjected to barbaric conditions, the most infamous of which was being forced to carry heavy stone blocks up 186 steps from the camp quarry. The steps became known as the ·ÄòStairway of Death·Äô.
Wiebe was born in Blaricum - a few years later, the Dop family moved from there to Laarderweg 65 (now 91) in Eemnes. After primary school he attended the craft school in Hilversum to learn the trade of carpenter. Like almost all young men in Holland, he also received a call for employment in Germany. When choosing whether to go into hiding or go to Germany, he opted for the latter. We will never know the background to that choice.
Wiebe was taken to Germany on 6 September 1943. Via a transit camp in Cologne, they ended up in Krefeld-Oppum in the Ruhr area where he worked as a forced labourer (Krefelder Bauhandwerk Arbeitsgemeinschaft). He was housed in 'Arbeitslager' Krefeld-Oppum - he was arrested there during a "razzia" with two collegues - Dirk Pieter van Leeuwen and Cornelius Lambertus van Beuningen. A year later, in September 1944, all three were transferred to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Oranienburg where Wiebe worked in the Klinker Camp for Heinkel Aircraft Factory.
On 17 February 1945 Wiebe was taken to Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria - he was registered there as ·ÄúNiederlaendischer Schutzhaeftling·Äù (Dutch prisoner in custody), prisoner # 130585. On 12 March 1945 to a sub-camp called Kamp Wels in Gunskirchen (prisoner 102913). When this camp closed on 24 March 1945 he was sent on a death march to Gunskirchen Death Camp where he died. It is not known where he was buried.