Elisabeth Soep, the eldest of the twins, was born on 11 March 1911 in Amsterdam, half an hour earlier than her sister Catharina as the daughter of Anna Vogel and Meijer Soep and was unmarried. She lived at home with her parents, brother Isidoor and sister Catharina and from 5 March 1941 her address was also Amstel 354, 1st floor.
Elisabeth had become a seamstress and her eldest brother Jacob was a tailor at the raincoat factory De Groot & Co on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. (His wife Sara Premselaar was also a lingerie seamstress). After Elisabeth and her brother Jacob received a summons for the “Arbeitseinsatz” on 18 July 1942, they were granted a “Zurückstellung” (postponement/exemption) of deportation by the Jewish Council, possibly on the basis of their occupation in the textile and clothing industry.
In April of the nex year, Elisabeth Soep was arrested and taken to Vught concentration camp on 9 April 1943. There she was "employed at Splitter" as a seamstress, which was an administrative reference for employment with the textile command. "Splitter" was originally an Amsterdam fur workshop, where fur caps, fur vests and fur linings for officer's coats were made and which also refers to the foreman or woman of the furriers.
In Vught, Elisabeth stayed in barrack 29a until she was sent back to Westerbork on 20 September 1943 and sent on Monday, 21 September from Westerbork to Auschwitz. This transport consisted of 979 deportees, including 300 people who had left Vught the day before.
On 24 September 1943 the deportation train arrived in Auschwitz, after which selections followed. Of the 394 women between the ages of 16 and 50 in this transport, ± 100 were selected for experiments. The others, including the 32-year-old Elisabeth Soep, were immediately taken to Birkenau to be gassed.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, birth certificates of Elisabeth and Catharina Soep, family registration card of Meijer Soep, archive card of Elisabeth Soep; Publication "Vermoedelijk op transport" (possibly on transport) by Raymund Schütz, page. 34 - from Zurückstellung to Sperre, edited 2010/2011; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Elisabeth Soep; website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught of Elisabeth Soep;Publication Auschwitz volumel 4/autumn transports (21 September 1943), edited by the Dutch Red Cross in October 1953, pages 43, 46 , 51, 65 and 66 and the death certificate no. 1639 for Elisabeth Soep, made out in Amsterdam on 28 September 1951 from the A-register 87-folio 30.