Susanna Broekhuijsen-Hilsum

Susanna Hilsum, daughter of Levie Jacob Hilsum and Reintje Rooselaar, married 7 March 1901 in Den Haag to Maurits Broekhuijsen, a son of Moses Broekhuijsen and Hester Zwart.
Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Maurits Broekhuijsen and the Civil Registry, index marriages and certificate of death.

From the tekst of the certificate of death nr, 1243, made oud 17 May 1940 of the…

De ouders van Susanna (Suze)Broekhuijsen-Hilsum waren:

Levie (Louis) Jacob Hilsum,

geb. Amsterdam 19 nov. 1833 - overl. Amsterdam x febr. 1898.

Reina (Reintje) Rooselaar/ Rozelaar/  Roozelaar,

geb. Amsterdam 10 sept. 1832 - overl. Amsterdam 16 dec. 1908.

Zij hadden 9 kinderen die hoogstwaarschijnlijk allen werden geboren te Amsterdam:

1 Esther Veder-Hilsum, geb. rond 1859

2  Sara Maijkels-Hilsum, …

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…