Diena Katz was a daughter of Benjamin Katz and Sijbilla Philipson from Doesburg. 18 June 1902, she married in Amsterdam Alexander Hegt, a son of shoemaker Samuel Hegt and Hester van Win. The couple had six children: one daughter died very young, only 1 year old; two sons have survived the Holocaust and three children of Diena and Alexander, namely Sophia, Hester and Rachel Mientje were killed in the Shoah, just as their parents self.
Diena Katz was born into a family with 11 children. Of them two brothers have died in Doesburg at age 10. Two sisters and two brothers have died already before the war and of one sister nothing is further known. But Diena self and her siblings Jetje, Eva and Mozes werd killed in the Shoah.
Diena and Alexander were sent to Camp Westerbork on 20 May 1943, registered there and five days later, on 25 May, deported to Sobibor. Upon arrival there on 28 May 1943, Diena Katz and Alexander Hegt were immediately killed.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Alexander Hegt; website www wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Diena Hegt-Kaz (should be Katz) and Alexander Hegt.