Of the four children of the unmarried Hendrica van Kreeveld, Lena was the only one who was murdered in Auschwitz during the Shoah. Lena van Kreeveld was born in Amsterdam on 12 March 1913. Her eldest brother Joseph died in 1936, aged 25; his wife Celina Sturkop was murdered in Auschwitz, but their 1930 daughter Hendrica van Kreeveld survived the Holocaust.
Lena also had a little brother Juda, who …