Eduard Adelaar

Eduard Adelaar was married to Klara van Huiden. He was a travelling salesman. Under pressure of the circumstances, he and his wife took their own lives.
D. Stibbe and J. Hagedoorn, Herinneringsboek joods Zwolle 1940-1945 (Zwolle 1995) 24-25

In addition, a Jokos file (number 1160) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maa…

Het biografisch portret van Eduard Adelaar en Klara van Huiden, Eduard en Klara vluchtten in de dood, is te vinden op:

Stichting Judaica Zwolle

It is still an extremely sensitive topic: suicide during the Second World War. Historians have not known what to do with it for a long time. What is the place of suicide bombers in war history?

Remarkably little has been written on this subject and there seems to be no list of names or memorial books at all. The Digital Monument (www.joodsmonument.nl) offers a place where relatives, sometimes for …