Martin Krause

We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam either. They are therefore labeled as 'surviving' and their names are not listed.

In addition, a Jokos file (number 15557) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject…

Martin Krause trouwde  7 augustus 1922 in Lahr (Duitsland) met Mina Wertheimer. Ze kregen samen een dochter. Vanaf 1933 woonde het gezin in Nederland, eerst in Nijmegen en later in Amsterdam. Martin overleed tijdens de oorlog in Amsterdam op 24 juli 1943.

SAA archiefkaart Martin Krause 5-2-1892

Op of omstreeks 24 juli 1943 hebben Martin Krause en zijn echtgenote Mina Wertheimer getracht zelfmoord te plegen door gasverstikking. Martin is daaraan overleden en Mina heeft de poging overleefd. (Bron dagrapport politie Amsterdam) 

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…