Andries Stodel

Andries Stodel was the son of Salomon Stodel and Matje Davidson. Andries married in 1907 to Engelina van der Meusen. They had one son: Sieg Stodel, born in 1910. Andries was a travelling merchant.
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The funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Haarlem reveal that Andries Stodel was buried there.

Zie ook de vermelding van deze zelfmoorden en zelfmoordpogingen in het boek van Lucas Ligtenberg: Mij krijgen ze niet levend: de zelfmoorden van mei 1940 (Amsterdam, 2017) 146, 216, 236-237, 242.

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 …