Rebekka Sluizer-Bloch

Rebekka Bloch was the daughter of Israel Bloch and Sara Maria Keizer. In 1902 she married Salomon David Sluizer, who died in 1935. The couple had five children, of whom at least one, Max, did not survive the war.
Amsterdam Municipal Archives; record card of Rebekka Bloch

Rebekka Sluizer-Bloch got the opportunity of going into hiding in Haarlem. At her hiding place she broke her hip. Medical help…

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…