Betje Brommet-van der Horst

Vader van Betje was Meijer van der Horst (31-5-1872 Steenwijk; 6-8-1941 Beesterswaag). Meijer woonde vanaf 1-1-1941 in Deventer.

Liepman Brommet was the headmaster of a school in Deventer. In 1941 he was dismissed by order of the occupying forces. In Utrecht he found work at a Jewish school. In 1942 Liepman Brommet was deported to Mauthausen, where he was murdered. Soon after he died, his wife Betje Brommet-van der Horts took her own life. Their only child was married to 364405 and lived on another address. The child was pu…

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…