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Arthur Premsela

Amsterdam, – Amsterdam,

Reached the age of 19 years

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Emanuel Meyer Premsela and his family

Emanuel Meyer Premsela was the son of Andries Premsela and Adèle Kleerekoper. In 1920 he married Vrouwtje Lamon. She was the daughter of Isaac Lamon and Raatje Polak. The couple had two children: Arthur and Vera. Only days after the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, the whole family commited suicide.
Amsterdam Municipal Archives; record card of Emanuel Meyer Premsela en Vrouwtje La…

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Onder druk van de omstandigheden: namenlijst

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 …

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