In 1937, agricultural training for Jewish youth was started in Gouda. This training was intended to train Jewish young people in agriculture so that they could then be deployed in what was then Palestine. The Gouda education could be realized with the help of a bequest of about NLG 80,000 donated by Catharina van Zon. From 1940, the training was the responsibility of the Jewish Center for Vocational Training. A manager, J. Middelburg, a horticulturist's son from the Westland, was recruited for professional guidance. A neighbor across the street from Ridder van Catsweg, Dirk van Schaik, acted as foreman in his spare time. The group was led by the Jewish couple Dr. Manfred Ralf Litten and Jansje Litten-Serlui from Danzig. The board of directors included Mrs A. Vroman-Vromen, the mother of the poet, biologist and haematologist Leo Vroman. Initially, during the Second World War, work on the youth farm could be continued. However, traveling to Palestine was no longer possible. The members of the youth farm were exempted from deportation because their efforts were considered indispensable for food production. But after the residents of the Association of Central Israeli Old Men and Women in the De Haven building were arrested and deported in April 1943, the situation for the residents of the youth farm also became untenable. After a warning that deportation threatened them too, the members of the youth farm went into hiding. In the end, 18 of the 27 members survived the Second World War. Eight of them, including the Litten couple, were murdered by the Germans in one of the extermination camps. The ninth member died in flight in the Pyrenees. Nine Stolpersteine ​​have been placed on the Ridder van Catsweg as a reminder of these murdered Jews. On May 4, 2013, a memorial plaque was unveiled at this location. From June 1, 1943, work on the Catharinahoeve was stopped. The manager was fired. After the Second World War, the training activities were restarted and continued for several years, first with Middelburg as manager. From 1949 the management was in the hands of Van Schaik.[1] In 1953 - the Catharinahoeve was sold. The building was demolished in 1981.