Johanna Simon-Katz

Anna Simon-Katz was a widow. She lived at 32 Zuider Amstellaan, third floor, in Amsterdam. Under pressure of the circumstances, she took her own life between 21 January and 16 February 1943.
NIOD, Records Joodse Raad, box 36d, letter d.d. 18 February 1943

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 …

Meer over Emma Katz-Marx, haar man Ferdinand Katz (1857-1926) en hun dochter Mina Katz,  de neven: Hugo Katz, Ernst Katz en nicht Johanna Simon-Katz kunt u hier lezen: https://stadtatlas.darmstadt.de/ST/Emma Marx en Minna Katz