Rozetta de Vries-Anholt

Rozetta Anholt was the daughter of Emanuel Anholt and Groetje Swartenberg. Several days after the german invasion she committed suicide.
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Rozetta Anholt is geboren op 14-11-1887 te Kampen. Zij huwde op 21-12-1916 te Kampen met Herman de Vries.
Herman de Vries is geboren in 1882 te Hardinxveld

Herman en Rozetta de Vries woonden op Adelheidstraat 32 in Den Haag. Zij pleegden beide zelfmoord door middel van gasverstikking op 15 mei 1940. Reintje Betsy Velleman-Anholt, de zuster van Rozetta, woonde dichtbij op Mariastraat 4, en pleegde met haar gezin op diezelfde nacht zelfmoord.

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…