Kurt Hannemann was among the group of young Zionists from Germany that came to Assen to work on farms in Zeijerveld in the province of Drenthe to prepare for life as farmers in Palestine. These people were known as Palestine Pioneers. He also spent some time at the Werkdorp on the Wieringermeer. While visiting some Jews in hiding in a house in Rotterdam, the place was raided. He was caught. In 1947 surviving Palestine Pioneers planted the Westerweel Forest on one of the slopes of Mount Ephraim in what was Palestine at the time. There is a monument bearing the names of the Palestine Pioneers killed during the war. Kurt Hannemann's name appears on this monument.
//F.J. Hulst and H.M. Luning, De joodse gemeente Assen. Geschiedenis van een behoorlijke Kille, 1740-1976 (Assen 1993),,F. van der Straaten, Om nooit te vergeten. Herinneringen en belevenissen aan/van Palestina-Pioniers in Nederland gedrurende de oorlogsjaren 1939-1945
(Mijnsheerenland, s.a.) 129, 149, 213//
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