Bertha Louise Marx-van den Bergh

Geboren op 17 Feb 1881 in Oss, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands [Gezinskaart Eugen Marx, Rotterdam] als dochter van Arnold Simon van den Bergh en Juliette Nathan

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Eugen Marx married Bertha Louise van den Bergh in 1908. The couple had two children. One child had left the Netherlands before the war.
In the 1930's Eugen Marx helped German Jews across the boarder. The Marx family had no doubt what would happen to them if the Nazis got hold of them. At the day of the German occupation of the Netherlands the three family members tried to escape by boat to England…

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 …