Sara van Velzen-Halberstadt

Sara Halberstadt was married to Louis van Velzen, a son of Barend van Velzen and Rebecca Viskoper.
She has been deported on 15 September 1942 from Mechelen to Auschwitz with Convoy X, which arrived in Auschwitz and were she was killed on 18 September 1942.
Memorial of the Deportations of the Belgian Jews, Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp 171648/498 and an addition of a visitor of the …

Barend van Velzen is geboren op 19 januari 1896 in Amsterdam als zoon van Louis van Velzen en Johanna Wurms. Barend wordt marskramer van beroep. Op 10 januari 1917 trouwt hij in de Nederlandse hoofdstad met Rebecca Viskoper. Rebecca werd geboren in Amsterdam op 2 april 1898 als dochter van Benjamin Viskoper en Johanna Beveren.

De vier kinderen van Barend en Rebecca van Velzen-Viskoper zijn allen g…

Sara van Velzen-Halberstadt was not gassed upon arrival on September 18th, 1942, but rather was among the  101 women of Mechelen Transport X chosen as labor during selection.

She perished on the camp on October 18th, 1942, and appears in the camps death books.