Rebecca Mok

The funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Haarlem reveal that Rebecca Mok was buried there.

The members of this family took their own lives under pressure of the circumstances.
NIOD, Records Joodse Raad, box 36d, letter dd. 9 November 1942

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…

Rebecca Mok was verpleegster 1e klas in het toen genoemde "krankzinnigenwezen", tegenwoordig psychiatrie.

Zij heeft gewerkt bij Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis/toenmalige "krankzinnigenwezen" BGD Meerenberg in Bloemendaal van 01-10-1913 tot 14-12-1916,  opleiding verpleegster 1e klas

In de periode 17-05-1922 tot 16-10-1924 heeft ze gewerkt in NI/ Indonesië/Java in Semarang (?), Lawang  Pasoeroean en Soer…