As a young child, Marion lived for a time with the painter Arie van de Boon and his wife Henriette, and because she was blonde, she did not attract the occupiers' attention. Her father was killed in the war; her mother survived, but was a stranger to Marion when she came to collect her after the war. According to the Rolderpost, Rolde's village paper, Marion still remembers a lot about her time in Rolde.
Stokker is on the boards of the Stichting Struikelstenen Aa en Hunze, which lays Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), and of the Rolder Historisch Gezelschap, the local history society. The foundation is working on a book about people who were in hiding in Rolde, in which Marion's story will also have a place.
Alderman Richard Heling spoke on behalf of the municipality and also read out the names of the victims on the memorial. He drew attention to the unrest in the world, but also to what is happening closer to home, and called on people to stay vigilant about freedom and democracy. Two pupils from the final year (groep 8) of the Jan Thiesschool, which adopted the memorial in 2006, recited poems of their own about the victims of the occupation, among them Jewish citizens.
The evening began with a silent procession from the windmill on the Grote Brink, which ended at the memorial on the Kerkbrink. There the Klein Orkest Rolde played and Paul Tahalele was master of ceremonies. After the Last Post, two minutes' silence was observed at 8pm, followed by the Wilhelmus, the national anthem, after which flowers were laid, among others by pupils of the Jan Thiesschool. The 4 mei comité is made up of Pieter Brands, Janny Bruins, Jeroen Hummel, Luuk Lesschen and Andries Visser.