Elisabet Oettinger-Oettinger

Johann Friedrich Paul Oettinger and his family committed suicide on 16 May 1940. They were buried on 19 May 1940 in Diemen.
M. van der Valk, 'Wordt vervolgd', in: Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, 1 augustus 2003

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…