Sippora Helena Samson-Godfried

Sippora Helena Godfried was a daughter of Israel Godfried and Esther Mirjam Polak.
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Levie Barend Samson and Sippora Helena Godfried married on 5 July 1906 in Groningen. During the war they went into hiding and were betrayed. Before they were arrested they took their own lives on 28 January1944.
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Levie Barend Samson and Sippora Helena Godfried were reburied on 3 March 2009 on the Jewish cemetery in Wassenaar.
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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 …