Betsy Cornelia Sanders-Kooperberg

Betsy Cornelia Kooperberg was a daughter of Leo Simon Charles Kooperberg and Esther Kalf.
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This person is commemorated on a memorial in Amsterdam. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

Elkan Sanders studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 3 July 1929. He specialised in Vienna in oral surgery. On 28 June 1933, he obtained his doctoral degree in Amsterdam on a thesis about 'Replantation and transplantation of teeth'.
Sanders settled as physician 'for dentistry and dental surgery'. He lived and practised at 18 J.J. Viottastraat in Amsterdam. He also p…

Op het monument staat haar naam als Elisabeth Cornelia Kooperberg. Officieel waren haar voornamen Betsy Cornelia.

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 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 the firs…

Esther Voorzanger-Kalf had uit haar eerste huwelijk met Leo Simon Charles Kooperberg een tweede dochter, Lien Henriette Kooperberg, geboren 3 juni 1919 in Soerabaja. Zij heeft via Westerbork en Theresienstadt de oorlog overleefd, en is getrouwd in 1950 met Alphons Lodewijk Diercks. Zij heeft twee zonen gekregen, Ronald Leo en Paul Gerard. Zij is overleden op 4 december 1997