Emil Metzger

Emil en Clementine Metzger committed suicide on the 18th of May, 1940 by taking veronal. Emil died directly and his sister, Clementine died 2 days later on the 20th of May, 1940 .

Brother and sister were burried on the Jewisch cemetery in Diemen.

Source: Lucas Ligtenberg, “Mij krijgen ze niet levend” Uitgeverij Balans 2017, ISBN 978 94 600 3845 7

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…