Nochem Loonstijn

Nochem Loonstijn was born on 8 March 1894 in Amsterdam. He died on 17 May 1940 in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam municipal archive, Records Jokos, Möbel-claim; property Joods Maatschappelijk Werk

Nochem is samen met zijn echtgenote Henriette Chen op 20-05-1940 begraven op de begraafplaats te Diemen.

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…