Eugen Marx

Eugen Marx studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 2 July 1906. He specialised in ophthalmics and established himself as an ophthalmist in Rotterdam. He obtained his doctoral degree on 10 July 1925 in Leiden on a thesis 'On the sensitivity of the cornea'. He became an unsalaried university lecturer in Leiden.
Eugen Marx lived at 26b Oranjelaan in Rotterdam. He practi…

Eugen Marx married Bertha Louise van den Bergh in 1908. The couple had two children. One child had left the Netherlands before the war.
In the 1930's Eugen Marx helped German Jews across the boarder. The Marx family had no doubt what would happen to them if the Nazis got hold of them. At the day of the German occupation of the Netherlands the three family members tried to escape by boat to England…

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…

Eugen Marx promoveerde in Leiden, is daarna rond 1926  een praktijk begonnen op de Rijnsburgerweg 96, daar heeft hij nog enkele jaren praktijk gehad

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