Klara Stern-Gompertz

After she had received the call for deportation, Klara Stern-Gomperts took her own life on 27 August 1942.
Addition of a visitor of the website

http://wp.ge-mittelkreis.de/webfrie05/webinsch/jupage/fhartog.htm

In addition, a Jokos file (number 53885) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 11493/9840).

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…