Herman Michel van Gelder

Herman Michel van Gelder en Eveline Selma Schrijver trouwden op 3 mei  1928 in Amsterdam.

Zij besloten op 15 mei 1940 samen een einde aan hun leven te maken.

Redactie Joods Monument

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…