Jacques Gelder

Jacques van Gelder pleegt in zijn woning aan de Van der Parrastraat 28 te Den Haag op 10 februari 1942 zelfmoord door het gebruik van een barbituraat.

Bron : HGA 

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 …