Lena was born in Amsterdam on December 20, 1919, the fair-haired youngest child of Sara and Juda Lakmaaker.
Lena married Barend Halberstad in 1942, living on the second floor of a small apartment with her mother-in law.One day while Lena and Barend were away, her mother-in-law was cleaning the front steps when SS guards took her to a holding centre at the local cinema for the night.Barend went t…