Biography

About Selma Broekman-Nathan

Selma Nathan was married to Aron Broekman. The couple had two children: Elias Paul and Max Ernst. Aron Broekman owned a leatherware business (coats and boots) in de Wielakkerstraat in Arnhem. Selma Broekman-Nathan took her own life in September 1942 after her husband and her son Elias Paul were transported to Amersfoort and then deported to Mauthausen.
H.E. Dominicus Mauthausen. Een gedenkboek (2e herziene en uitgebreide druk; Amsterdam 1999) 37.

See also: NIOD, Archief Joodse Raad, doos 36d, brief d.d. 2 oktober 1942