Duifje Schijvenschuurder was the middle one of the three children of Isidorus Schijvenschuurder and Sientje van Praag. She was born 1 February 1921 and lived with her parents, her elder sister and younger brother at Lepelstraat 70 2nd storey in Amsterdam-Centre. She was a seamstress by profession and unmarried.
Presumably Duifje had responded to the call she may have received for the so-called "Arbeitseinsatz in Germany" On 24 July 1942 the was sent from her home in Amsterdam to Westerbork, registered there on 25 July 1942 and put on transport to Auschwitz on 31 July 1942 with another 1005 deportees and arrived there on 1 or 2 August 1942.
Most likely, on arrival in Auschwitz, Duifje Schijvenschuurder has been deployed as forced labourer and has lost her life there at some point in August of September 1942, however, the exact date and place of her death is unknown. Therefore the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the City of Amsterdam after the war to draw up a certificate of death for Duifje Schijvenschuurder in which is established that she has died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Isidorus Schijvenschuurder, archive card of Duifje Schijvenschuurder, certificte of death for Duifje Schijvenschuurder from Amsterdam, A-reg.52-fol.50v-cert.294 dated 9 July1950.