Nochem Loonstijn was born on 8 March 1894 in Amsterdam. He died on 17 May 1940 in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam municipal archive, Records Jokos, Möbel-claim; property Joods Maatschappelijk Werk
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 t…