George Dondorp

The funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Haarlem reveal that George Dondorp was buried there together with his spouse, Elisabeth Dingsdag, and his sister, Margaretha Dondorp.

They committed suicide on the 16th 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…