Bertha Davida de Kadt-Polak

The funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Leeuwarden reveal that Bertha Davida Polak was buried there.

Bertha Davida Polak studeerde van januari 1922 tot october 1923 rechten aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Due to the pressure of the circumstances, the de Kadt family took their own lives by letting gas run through their house. The youngest child survives due to the fact that the crib was placed near an open window.
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J. Kooistra, Een laatste saluut. Fryslân in de oorlog (Leeuwarden 2005) 24

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…

Een bekende van de familie De Kadt-Polak haalt in onderstaand boek enkele herinneringen aan het gezin op.
Auke Zeldenrust, De Joodse bruiloft: een koffer vol oorlogsgeheimen (Amsterdam 2018) 204-205.