Mietje Heertje-Kinsbergen

Mietje Kinsbergen was a daughter of Philip Kinsbergen and Branca Brilleman. She had a rare eye disease. Her eyelashes grew into her eyes. Her husband Abraham helped her by daily taking the eyelashes from her eyes.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 51874) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Mietje Heertje-Kinsbergen took her own life under pressure of the circumstances.
NIOD, Records Joodse Raad, box 244d, letter dd. 7 August 1942

Uit gegevens van de Amsterdamse politie blijkt dat mevrouw Mietje Heertje - Kinsbergen zich van het leven heeft beroofd.

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…