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Herdenk Hermanus Aa

Hermanus Aa

Amsterdam, – Amsterdam,

Reached the age of 68 years

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About Bernard Aa

Bernard Aa studied medicine at the Municipal University of Amsterdam. He sat for his medical finals on 22 June 1932. Together with his wife Dina van der Kar, he took his own life on 16 May 1940. Dina van der Kar and Bernard Aa were buried in the Jewish cemetery at Muiderberg.
J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 73.

Bernard Aa had a…

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Hermanus Aa

Hermanus is een is een zoon van Benjamin Aa en Gesina Groenstad. Hij trouwde 7 juni 1905 in Zaandam met Sara Klok (32 jaar), dochter van Joseph Hartog Klok en Rebekka Groen.

Bron wiewaswie.nl (huwelijk Sara Klok en Hermanus Aa)

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Familie Aa

Meer informatie over de zelfmoord van de familie Aa is te vinden in het boek van Lucas Ligtenberg: Mij krijgen ze niet levend: de zelfmoorden van mei 1940 (Amsterdam, 2017).

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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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