The title of this post is the words of a then 9-year-old girl, Jiska Pinkhof. In 1940, she wrote in the album of her friend Elly, “Always be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet. Then you give joy to others, and you yourself are well off.” Wise words for a 9-year-old.
Jiska was a student of the 1st Montessori School on the Corellistraat in Amsterdam. Of the 172 students and former students of the school who were murdered during World War II, 169 were Jewish. Jiska was one of them.
She was born in Den Helder, the Netherlands, on 9 December 1931. She was imprisoned in Westerbork. She was deported to Sobibor on 20 July 1943 and then murdered there three days later, at age 11.
Sources
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Jiska-Pinkhof/27/99778
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