Henriëtte Delia (Jetje) Hamburger was part of the so-called Gruppe Unbekannte Kinde, unknown children, a group of more than fifty children whom the Nazis had failed to identify. She and her brother—were betrayed at their hiding place in Amsterdam.
Jetje Hamburger was born on December 24, 1943 in Eindhoven. Her parents were no longer together. Her father was in a camp in Poland, and her mother was in hiding. While in hiding, she gave birth to Henriëtte Delia, nicknamed Jetje. The girl and her older brother Bert were separated from their mother and ended up in another hiding place. Their mother still had photos taken of her children. She wanted to send them to their father.
Jetje is one of the 51 unknown children. A group of Jewish boys and girls of whom it was not clear who they were. Fifty children miraculously survived the hardships. Only little Jetje did not make it.
Jetje and her 3-year-old brother were betrayed, arrested, and sent to Camp Westerbork. There, they ended up in the orphanage barracks. On September 13, 1944, with the other children, they were transported. It was the last transport that left Westerbork for the concentration camps.
Caregiver Mary Adriaansz—an arrested Jewish woman from Rotterdam—takes care of the children.
Jetje did not survive the transport to Bergen Belsen. She died from pneumonia on October 7, 1944.
Bert—Jet’s brother—survived the war. He was five years old when he returned to the Netherlands from Theresienstadt and reunited with his parents.
Sources
https://www.maxvandam.info/humo-gen/family/1/F41788?main_person=I111106
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Henri%C3%ABtte-Delia-Hamburger/84/13089
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