Riko van Hessen

Riko van Hessen was the son of Bernard van Hessen and Frouwke van Dam. He married in Amsterdam on 3 April 1913 to a non-jewish woman, from whom he divorced on 5 May 1927. The couple had two sons, among them Johan Gerard and one daughter, of which one son passed away in Amsterdam on 22 September 1944.
Addition of a visitor of the website and City Archive of Amsterdam, among others the archive card …

Frouwke van Dam en Bernard van Hessen zijn de ouders van Riko van Hessen,
geboorteakte Riko van Hessen Warffum 1889 nr 49.

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…