Maurits de Bruin

Maurits de Bruin jr. studied medicine in Amsterdam and he sat for his medical finals on 22 November 1922. He obtained his doctoral degree on 28 June 1926 in Amsterdam on the thesis 'On the prognosis of miliairtuberculosis'.
Maurits de Bruin lived at 37 Jan van Eijckstraat in Amsterdam. In 1938, he published the famous booklet on the 'Infant care'. In the Geneeskundige Bladen (1930, XXVIII) he wro…

Maurits is een zoon van Jonas de Bruin en Rachel de Vries. Hij trouwde 28 juli 1926 met Carolina Levie (25 jaar), dochter van Alfred Levie en Mathilda Eitje.

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Maurits de Bruin committed suicide on the 18th of May, 1940.

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…

Meer over Maurits de Bruin is te vinden in het boek van Lucas Ligtenberg: Mij krijgen ze niet levend: de zelfmoorden van mei 1940 (Amsterdam 2017) 66-67, 154-155.