Nelly Vega—A 9-Year-Old Smiling Enemy of the State

Nelly Vega was a Dutch from Amsterdam minding her own business.

She was a little girl doing her homework in front of a painting with some cows, a bridge and a field.

A little Dutch girl.

Little did she know she would become an enemy of the state.

There were men, and perhaps women, who looked at her and thought she’d pose a danger to them.

She was a Dutch girl in primary school.

Nelly Vega was born on 2 April 1934 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her life was taken from her by the Nazis on 9 July 1943 at Sobibor. She reached the age of nine.

A Dutch girl from Amsterdam with a lovely smile, She wasn’t a threat to anyone. How could she have been a threat? She was only nine, and she wasn’t a child soldier. The only thing that made her different from other children—she was Jewish, but above everything else, she was a little Dutch girl.

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https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/160379/nelly-vega

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