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…
Emanuel Meyer Premsela was the son of Andries Premsela and Adèle Kleerekoper. In 1920 he married Vrouwtje Lamon. She was the daughter of Isaac Lamon and Raatje Polak. The couple had two children: Arthur and Vera. Only days after the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, the whole family co…