Henriette Wiener-van Gigch

Eduard Wiener studied medicine in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris. He specialised in dermatology and veneral diseases and also in radiation therapy. Eduard Wiener lived and practised medicine at 53 Minervalaan in Amsterdam and he also practised in the 'Inrichting voor licht- en röntgentherapie' (Institute for Light and Radiography Therapy) at 394 Keizersgracht and at 321 Marnixstraat in Amsterdam. His l…

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…