This person is commemorated on a memorial in Bergen op Zoom. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.
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 bombers in war history?
Remarkably little has been written on this subject and there seems to be no list of names or memorial book…
Isaac van Loon trouwt op 15-01-1924 in Roosendaal - na de dood van zijn eerste vrouw, Lena Kinsbergen - met Rosali Poppelsdorf (Amsterdam 1890 - Roosendaal 1963). Frieda van Loon is hun dochter, zij wordt op 22-10-1924 in Bergen op Zoom geboren. Isaac van Loon pleegt zelfmoord op 16-05-1940.
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