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…
Jeannette and Lea Kalf committed suicide on the 16th of May, 1940 by drowning in the Amstel.
The two sisters are buried on the Jewish cemetery in Diemen.