My mother, Hendrika van Boeijen, lived in the 1930’s at Landuis Breidablik, Verlengde Engweg 10, Laren as well as her mother, Hendrika Geertruida Wilhelmina Boeijen. My grandmother died in 1938, but my mother remained at the house with her grandparents, Theodorus van der Waerden and Dorothea Adriana Endt. In or around late 1939 or early 1940 my mother recalled Mr. van der Waerden standing outside of the driveway yelling at her to run away. My Mom was was only about 8 years old at the time, so it was not fully clear to me if at the same time or another time she also recalled a boy she played with as a child named Benny being forcibly thrown into a truck by German soldiers from the Laren house. My Mom believed that it was the same incident. Before the Pfeffers took residence, around when Mr. van der Waerden died of cancer in June 1940, my mother was taken to various family members on her mother’s side of the family and never returned to the house having been told it was lost to flood in or around 1942.
My Mom never stopped holding Benny dear to her heart, or other victims she knew such as a friend named Dina when she was in Groningen with her maternal family, and the Pfeffer family story that you shared moved myself and my surviving siblings. My sister Ellie and I will be in Laren in December to walk by the house and pay our respects.
Source: Henny van Breukelen