Alle Jong

Synagoge Groningen with presentation of portrait of Rosette van Beugen. Rosette was nine years old when she was murdered at Sobibor during the second world war

Come may 4th to the Synagoge in Groningen for the Open Jewesh houses project. The goal of the Open Jewish houses project is to share story’s on location where once lived Jewish family’s. On May 4th i will tell next to many more story’s told by others on other locations about Rosette van beugen. more information: http://www.openjoodsehuizen.nl/

Alle jong answering questions from the audiance in the front of the painting of Rosette van beugen on may 4th 2014

”A portrait of Rosette van beugen” 29-04-2014 by Alle Jong”

Today i installed at the Synagoge in Groningen; the portrait of the nine year old girl Rosette van Beugen who was murdered in the second world war at the age of nine in Sobibor. Today is very special for me! A year ago i painted this girl chosen out of sevenhundred photographs of different children who were murdered during the second world war. Who could imagine that the first portrait would be of a girl wich lived close to my house and art academy, just around the corner? A very strange coincidence!

Rosette is coming home in the Synagoge were she played and lived, even words of rosette survived until today. She once told a girlfriend at the synagoge that she could not stand on the red, because it was holy ground. Now seventy years later Rosette is being remembered in a special way,

with a portrait of her 230x150cm placed In the center of the Synagoge.

The Jewesh population of Groningen was before the war around three thousand, around two hundred people survived the war.

Portrait of Rosette van Beugen Groningen, 15 december 1933 – Sobibor, 9 juli 1943  acryl on linnen 230x150cm 2013

Come may 4th to the Synagoge in Groningen for the Open Jewesh houses project. The goal of the Open Jewish houses project is to share story’s on location where once lived Jewish family’s. On May 4th i will tell next to many more story’s told by others on other locations about Rosette van beugen. more information: http://www.openjoodsehuizen.nl/

To find more information about Rosette van beugen see these links:

1 Concert Synagoge 22-06-2014 with Rosette van beugen

2 Honorary Portrait of Irena Sendler & Rosette van beugen 230x150cm oil on linnen 2014

3 May 4th 2014, The story of Rootje (Rosette) and many other Jewish victems of war lived on

4 Project – Portraits of Dutch deported & killed children from the Holocaust 1942-45