History of Sorts

All stories of children murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust are enormously sad on many levels.

The story of Helga Renate Sara Zons is particularly heartbreaking. There are no pictures of her, just a death certificate to remember her. The certificate was issued ten years after the Nazis murdered her.

What makes it very sad is she would have been 79 today. She could still have a few decades more to live, but she never had a life. To begin with, she was born on 26 April 1941. Her place of birth was Westerbork Transit Camp— she was born in captivity.

Sara only had two journeys in her short life. The first one was to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944. Her second journey—the last journey—was to the Auschwitz Death Camp, where the Nazis murdered her upon arrival on 6 October 1944. She was only three years old. A life never fulfilled.

Rest in peace, little angel.

Sources

https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Helga-Renate-Sara-Zons/01/97835

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/217307/helga-renate-sara-zons