Netty Waterman was the only daughter of Kaatje David and Meijer Waterman. She was born on 19 November 1933 in the Roerstraat 30 parterre in Amsterdam, but with their parents, she moved in 1935 to Rotterdam. There, after some more removals in the city, she lived since June 1938 at Hofdijk 29b.
Possibly as a result of the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, Netty's parents were ordered to evacuate to Amsterdam. There they ended up with Hartog and Heintje Waterman - Netty's grandpa and grandma - who lived at Amstelstraat 19 2nd floor. Afterwards her parents and Netty moved to the Sarphatiepark 71 parterre, in March 1941 they moved to house number 51 1st floor and the last time that Netty's parents moved at Sarphatiepark was on June 7, 1941 to house number 41st floor.
Netty’s parents were drafted into the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” in Germany. They wanted to work quite hard in the labor camps in the East, but did not see it for Netty. That is why Netty was accomodated again with her grandparents Hartog and Heintje Waterman in Amstelstraat 19 2nd floor in Amsterdam. It was probably early August 1942 that her parents reported in Westerbork for the provision of additional work in Germany and on 10 August 1942 they were deported to Auschwitz. There they eventually died on September 30, 1942.
Grandfather Hartog Waterman appears to have been registered in Westerbork already on 13 November 1942, but obviously released again, due to the provisional exemption from deportation of his son Jonas. But with the last raid of 29 September 1943, Hartog, Heintje and their granddaughter Netty, who lived in with them, were again arrested and taken to Westerbork. There they stayed in barrack 68.
Netty Waterman and her grandparents were only deported from Westerbork to Theresienstadt on 25 February 1944. From their arrival there on 26 or 27 February to 23 October 1944, Netty and her grandparents were together in Theresienstadt. However, Netty was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 23 October 1944 with a so-called evacuation transport with transport number 742-XXIV / 4. There she was murdered as a 10-year-old girl on arrival on 25 October 1944 in the gas chamber of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Five days later her grandparents met the same fate: they were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on October 28, 1944 and killed in the gas chambers on arrival there on October 30, 1944.
Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, family registration card of Meijer Waterman, archive cards of Hartog Waterman, Meijer Waterman and Netty Waterman; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hartog Waterman, Heintje Waterman-Granaat, Jonas Waterman and Netty Waterman; website ITS / Arolson, transport tickets from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz of Netty Waterman and Heintje Waterman-Granaat; wikipedia website transports of Jews from Nederland.nl and the death certificate of Netty Waterman, drawn up in Amsterdam on 27 Nov 1953, no. 112 from the A-register 102-folia 20verso.