Jesaia Farro

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 61404, 52332) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 3241 / 6216).

Jesaia Farro, zijn echtgenote Sophia Dikker en inwonende Flora Dikker Cok, hebben allen op 10 februari 1943 zelfmoord gepleegd door gasverstikking. (Bron Politierapport archief Amsterdam) 

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 …