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Martha Rose Wijler

Zierikzee, – Auschwitz,

Reached the age of 23 years

Occupation: Teacher

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About Martha Rose Wijler

Martha Rose Wijler worked as a teacher in the Apeldoornse Bos, where she started working on 15 December 1941.
Gemeentearchief Apeldoorn (Municipal Archives), list of employees of the Apeldoornsche Bosch

The Police Commissioner of Apeldoorn requested that Martha Rose Wijler, living at the Frisolaan 13 in Apeldoorn, be located, detained and brought to trial. She was suspected of having changed her…

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Jacob Samuel Wijler and his family

In the summer of 1942 the Wijler family went into hiding. Jacob Wijler and Elisabeth Kolthoff hid in Epe, their daughters in Apeldoorn. In February 1943 both parents heard that their daughters were betrayed and deported. Jacob Wijler and Elisabeth Kolthoff committed suicide shortly afterwards. In Apeldoorn there is a memorial stone for the family.

See for more information the following website.

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Gezin Wijler

De familie Wijler bestond uit Jacob Samuel Wijler (1884), zijn vrouw Elisabeth Rose Wijler-Kolthoff (1887) en twee dochters Martha Rose (1919) en Rose Helene (1922). Alleen Rose Helene is in Apeldoorn geboren. Sinds 1920 woonde het gezin in Apeldoorn. Jacob was in dat jaar benoemd als docent Frans aan de Koninklijke HBS, later ook aan het gymnasium. De oudste dochter Martha Rose voltooide in Apeld…

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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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