Soesman Veder

Soesman was een zoon van Abraham Isaac Veder (1829-1898) en Sara Pereira (1828-1892).
In de ochtend van 15 mei 1940 is het lichaam van Soesman gevonden in de Amstel, vlak bij de begraafplaats Zorgvlied.

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…