Gravestone of Levie Barend Samson and Helena Sippora Godfried on the Algemene Begraafplaats (General Cemetery) 'Parkweg' in Voorburg. Private collection
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…
Levie Barend Samson and Sippora Helena Godfried married on 5 July 1906 in Groningen. During the war they went into hiding and were betrayed. Before they were arrested they took their own lives on 28 January1944.
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Levie Barend Samson and Sippora Helena Godfried we…