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In 1934 werden Ies Nort en Esther van Vriesland genoemd in de leesles in de Joodsche Jeugdkrant. Barry van Baalen plaatste dit op 23 juni 2020 op de Facebook groep Oud Gorcum, de woonplaats van Ies en Esther.
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…
The whole family commited suicide just after the capitulation and they are burried in the Jewish cemetry in Gorinchem.
This family is commemorated on a memorial in Gorinchem. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.
source: the Ar…