Sara Wallinski was the youngest daughter of Max Wallinski and Raatje Waterman. She was born in 1933 in Amsterdam and had three older sisters, namely Rebecca, Mirjam and Chaja. Her father came from Kiev to Amsterdam in 1911 and married her mother there in 1916. Her sister Rebecca however passed away in 1939 at the young age of 13 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Sara lived at home with her parents and sisters at IJsselstraat 2 II in Amsterdam. December 1941 married her sister Mirjam Arnold (Nol) Houtkruijer and Sara was their bridesmaid. Four months later, March 1942, her eldest sister Chaja married a non-Jewish man and had a daughter with him in 1943. Chaja and her daughter survived the Holocaust.
In 1941 al Jews were registerd by the Jewish Council. Also Sara and the other members of the Wallinksi family. Her fater Max was deported to Westerbork 29 June 1943 and killed in Sobibor 9 July 1943. Only 20 January 1944, Sara and her mother were deported to Westerbork where they stayed in barack 67. There she also found her sister Mirjam back. 25 January 1944 Sara, her mother Raatje and her sister Mirjam were put on transport to Auschwitz and upon arrival there 28 January 1944 they were immediately killed.
Most likely Mirjam and her husband Arnold did not report for “arbeitseinsatz” (work in Germany) for which they had receive a call. Arnold was arrested early 1943 and after captivity in jail at Amstelveenseweg in Amsterdam he was sent to concentration camp Vught, and eventually via Westerbork deported to Sobibor where he was killed 21 May 1943. Mirjam arrived in barack 67 at Westerbork as a “penal case” 20 January 1944. Waiting there for further “penal transport” she there found her mother Raatje Waterman and sister Mirjam again.
25 January 1944 Sara, her mother Raatje Waterman and sister Mirjam Houtkruijer were put on transport to Auschwitz and upon arrival there 28 January 1944 immediately killed.
Sources: City Archive of Amsterdam archive cards of Max Wallinski and Sara Wallinski; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Sara Wallinski, Max Wallinski, Raatje Waterman en Mirjam Houtkruijer-Wallinski and Arnold Houtkruijer.