In de zomervacantie van 1921 waren Helena (links) en Martha (rechts) Frijda in Amsterdam om hun oom Hertog Frijda op te zoeken. Hij staat op de foto rechts achter. De andere man is de oudste broer van Bertha, Willem Minden.
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…
Helena Martha Levy- Frijda committed suicide on the 15th of May, 1940 together with her husband Willy Albert Levy.
They were burried on the the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg.
Willy Levy was chirurg aan het Binnengasthuis in Amsterdam. Oom Willy en tante Lena woonden in de Frans van Mierisstraat 82 (in hun huis ben ik gebore…