Henriette Loonstijn Cohen was born on 31 October 1895 in Amsterdam. On 17 May 1940, she died 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 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…
De ouders van Henriette Cohen waren Lazarus Nochum Cohen en Sara van Buren (volgens Stadsarchief Amsterdam). Zij is op 6 mei 1920 getrouwd met Nochem Loonstijn (volgens Genlias) in Zaandam.
Het echtpaar heeft op 17 mei 1940 zelfmoord gepleegd.