Marcel Turksma

Marcel Turksma worked in the military apothecary in Rotterdam. He had the rank of sergeant in the Dutch army.
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The funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Rotterdam reveal that Marcel Turksma was buried there.

Het Nationaal Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH) in Den Haag beheert een database met namen van de gesneuvelde militairen en de omstandigheden waaronder zij zijn gevallen.[2] In de database staat tevens de religieuze gezindte vermeld. Bij 35 personen kon worden vastgesteld dat zij Joods waren.[3] Aan de hand van de lotgevallen van deze Joodse militairen krijgen we een indringend beeld van he…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 8910) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 11998/21080).

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…