Betsie Nort-Wijzenbeek

The whole family commited suicide just after the capitulation and they are burried in the Jewish cemetry in Gorinchem.
This family is commemorated on a memorial in Gorinchem. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

source: the Archives of Gorinchem

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…