The suicide part in Charlotte her life

A lot of Charlotte’s relatives have committed suicide. According to Mary Lowenthal Felstiner were those deaths not anomalous but exemplary! The one who broke the circle of the suicides in the Salomon family was Charlotte. She always chooses life, even if everything goes bad and life was unfair. All the persons who committed suicide in her family were women. Charlotte gives it an explanation.

“The relatively high rate among Jewish women stems from their inability to adapt to a difficult situation.”

“Physiological processes in the female organism.”

A least five of her family members committed suicide. But in the obituaries of her mother and grandmother, it wasn’t clear to see that they committed suicide.

Here you can see the two obituaries:

“After a short period of suffering, our beloved daughter, wife,
and mother, Franziska Knarre, passed away.
We ask that you abstain from condolence visits.”

20 March 1940, Marianne Benda died in her home, Villa,
“Eugenie,” Avenue Neuscheller: born in Berlin, Germany,
on 24 July 1867, daughter of George Benda and of a mother whose
names are not known, wife of Grunwald whose first name is not known.

The family was scared that other people would know it. In that time was suicide a taboo. People don’t talk about it, they try to hide it.

It was a great shock for Charlotte when she heard from her grandfather that a lot of her family members committed suicide.

Why didn’t she do it? What was her reason to choose life?