Jacob Samuel Wijler

Jacob Samuel Wijler (also known as Sam) was a teacher of French language and literature. He wrote a PhD thesis on Isaac de Pinto and received his doctorate in 1923. He was a member of the organization for Jewish Sciences and of the exam commission of French literature. He was fired in 1940.
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This person is commemorated on a memorial in Apeldoorn. More informat…

De foto uit de bijlage is een uitsnede van een groepsfoto van de hele school (Koninklijke H.B.S. in Apeldoorn) uit 1939

In the summer of 1942 the Wijler family went into hiding. Jacob Wijler and Elisabeth Kolthoff hid in Epe, their daughters in Apeldoorn. In February 1943 both parents heard that their daughters were betrayed and deported. Jacob Wijler and Elisabeth Kolthoff committed suicide shortly afterwards. In Apeldoorn there is a memorial stone for the family.

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De familie Wijler bestond uit Jacob Samuel Wijler (1884), zijn vrouw Elisabeth Rose Wijler-Kolthoff (1887) en twee dochters Martha Rose (1919) en Rose Helene (1922). Alleen Rose Helene is in Apeldoorn geboren. Sinds 1920 woonde het gezin in Apeldoorn. Jacob was in dat jaar benoemd als docent Frans aan de Koninklijke HBS, later ook aan het gymnasium. De oudste dochter Martha Rose voltooide in Apeld…

Op de website van Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork is in de serie Westerborkportretten een pagina over Jacob Wijler gepubliceerd.

Foto’s van Jacob Samuel Wijler, de gedenksteen voor hem en zijn gezin en meer informatie over de familie, is te vinden in het boek van H. Hamburger en J.C. Regtien, Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Gelderland, alsmede algemene oorlogsmonumenten waarop joodse namen voorkomen (Bedum 2005) 10.

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…