Alexandrina van Gelderen-de Vries

Alexandrina is een dochter van Jacob de Vries en Klaartje Mok. Ze trouwde 14 juli 1915 met Jacob van Gelderen (24 jaar), zoon van Michel van Gelderen en Frederika Fedder.

Bron wiewaswie.nl (huwelijk Alexandrina de Vries en Jacob van Gelderen)

Alexandrina and Jacob van Gelderen, committed suicide on the 15th of May, 1940,  together with their children Margreet and Johan.

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…