Biography

About Betje Lootsteen

Betje Lootsteen was a daughter of Mozes Lootsteen and Katje Jas. Her parents have passed away before the war.
Betje was born in a family with in total nine children: she self, Esther, Mietje, Abraham, Sander and Aaltje. They all have been killed during the Holocaust.
She had also two other brothers, who have died before the war and a sister, of whom nothing is known so far since 1934.
Betje Lootsteen was a charwoman and a lady-vendor at the streetmarket at the Amsterdam Lindengracht and Westerstraat, selling "flannels" on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
She was unmarried.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Mozes Lootsteen and archive card of Betje Lootsteen..