Overzicht
Het onderduikersmonument aan de Stationsstraat is een dankbetuiging van oud-onderduikers aan de Aaltense bevolking voor hun gastvrijheid en aan de verzetsmensen die de stuwende kracht waren bij het onderbrengen van de onderduikers.
The monument consists of a brick memorial wall with a fountain. A bronze plaque and two sculpted fragments of natural stone are set into the memorial wall.
Het monument is onthuld op 4 oktober 1947 door mevrouw D.G. Wikkerink-Eppink, de echtgenote van verzetsleider Hendrik Jan (Ome Jan) Wikkerink.
The text on the plaque reads (translated from Dutch):
PRESENTED TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF AALTEN BY PERSONS IN HIDING
WHO DURING THE YEARS OF OCCUPATION 1940-1945
FOUND A SAFE HAVEN HERE.
The sculpted fragments bear the text of Psalm 91:5 and 6.
The text of the left fragment reads:
THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID FOR THE TERROR BY NIGHT,
NOR FOR THE ARROW THAT FLIETH BY DAY;
NOR FOR THE PESTILENCE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS,
NOR FOR THE DESTRUCTION THAT WASTETH AT NOONDAY.
The text of the right fragment reads:
FOR HE SHALL COVER THEE WITH HIS FEATHERS, AND
UNDER HIS WINGS SHALT THOU TRUST.