Salomon Jacob Simons

In July 1940, an obituary was placed in the Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad for S.J. Simons. The notice was placed by the company Kamp & Co for their Partner and Boss.
Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, 26 juli 1940

Salomon Jacob Simons and his wife had a son called Nico Simons. Nico Simons was unmarried. The archive of the Stichting Sieraden-Comité contains among other things a statement of the right to inheritance from 1965.
NIOD, Records Stichting Sieraden-Comité, film 580, nr 2018, file 57

Uit gegevens van de Amsterdamse politie blijkt dat de heer Salomon Jacob Simons zich van het leven heeft beroofd. Als reden benoemt de politie van het bureau Pieter Aertzstraat: ´vrees voor internering.´

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…