Flora Cohen-Zeehandelaar

Nardus Henri Cohen and his wife, Flora Zeehandelaar, took their own lives on 17 May 1940. They were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Muiderberg.
J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 148, 153

De website van Stolpersteine Dordrecht heeft een artikel geplaatst over de zelfmoord van Nardus en Flora Cohen:

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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 bombers 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 …