Helmut Richard Reichstein was born in Westerbork on 30 December 1943. His parents survived the war.
Record of birth certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen
Helmut Richard Reichstein died in Westerbork transit camp on 16 June 1944 and was cremated on 19 June 1944. The urn with the ashes was interred at the Jewish cemetery in Diemen.
Record of Jews cremated in Camp Westerbork, 1943-1944; archives of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen, nr. 3789
List of Jewish individuals deceased in Westerbork and Buchenwald and buried at Dutch cemeteries; NIOD, Westerbork archives, port. 1, file 1