Thanksgiving to the Dominican Sisters
The monument in the form of a Marian cave was built with cinders from a Reuver vitrified clay factory. Near the cave is a memorial recalling the stay of these refugees.
Immediately after Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organised attack on German Jews and their possessions on the night of 9-10 November 1938, a wave of Jewish refugees began to arrive, including towards the Netherlands. A group of about 120 Jewish refugees landed in Reuver. They found temporary shelter in the local Heilig Hart Monastery, where they stayed until 29 August 1939. That day, they left for Camp Vianda in Hoek van Holland, a former export slaughterhouse that served as a Jewish refugee camp. Before their departure from Reuver, the refugees built a cave in honour of the Virgin Mary in the convent's garden out of gratitude. It was built from cinders, sourced from a local ceramic company.