Lena Zonligt was the youngest daughter of Hartog Zonligt and Elisabeth Cohen. She was a seamstress and unmarried. She lived at home with her parents and was born in June 1920 at Weesperstraat in Amsterdam, at the address where her parents went living after they returned fom Antwerp and Germany in 1916. In Borgerhout, her brother Alexander was born in 1911 and in the district Kray of the German town Essen in 1915, her brother Jakob Zacharias. After several removals, via Transvaalkade, Waterlooplein and Valckenierstraat, her parents and she herself arrived in September 1937 at Hertzogstraaty 8 3rd floor in East-Amsterdam.
On 18 September 1943, Lena Zonligt was registered in Westerbork, where she was enclosed in the penal barrack 67. Her parents had been carried off to Westerbork already on 13 March 1943 and put on transport to Sobibor on 23 March. On arrival there on 26 March 1943 they were immediately killed. It cannot be ruled out that Lena has tried to escape deportation by going into hiding, but possibly has been betrayed in September 1943. After stayed a few days in the penal barrack 67 she was deported to Auschwitz on 21 September and on arrival there immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hartog Zonligt, archive card of Lena Zonligt and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Lena Zonligt, Hartog Zonligt and Elisabeth Zonligt-Cohen