Daniel Tobias Metz

Daniel Tobias Metz was the son of Tobias Daniel Metz and Zippora Abraham.
Gemeentearchief Den Haag. Overlijdensakte van Daniel Tobias Metz

Daniel Tobias Metz married Pietje Ligtenstein in Groningen on 4 September, 1913. The couple lived for some time in Paris and from May 1939 till January 1940 in England.
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Shortly after the German invasion of the Netherlands, Daniel Tobias Metz and his wife Pietje Ligtenstein committed suicide.
Gemeentearchief Den Haag. Overlijdensaktes

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 …