Lilian Widawski, born 24 May 1925 in Amsterdam, was the eldest daughter of Icek Widawski and Clara Leon. She had two other sisters, Beatrice and Mia and a brother Bernard. Her father passed in January 1940 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Her mother and her siblings were all killed in Sobibor on 2 July 1943.
Lilian was born in the Govert Flinckstraat 307 in Amsterdam; her parents lived there already since 7 June 1923. After having moved another four times, the family resided in Korte Meerhuizenstraat 16 2nd floor in the so-called IJssel-district in Amsterdam-South.
On 11 May 1939, Lilian was unsubscribed from the Population Register of Amsterdam; she was accommodated in the S.A. Rudelsheim foundation in Hilversum, an institution for Jewish mentally disabled and handicapped children. They were taken in in the house Beth Azarja, which was located in the Verdilaan 10 in Hilversum.
In the last couple of months of 1942, Lilian Widawski and her fellow inmates were relocated to Heideparkweg 51 in Hilversum, as the Germans had claimed the Verdilaan location. All were arrested there on 7 April 1943 and carried off to Westerbork. According to her registration card of the Jewish Council, Lilian ended up in barrack 63 in Westerbork on 4 June 1943 and from there, she was put on transport to Sobibor on 8 June. On arrival in Sobibor on 11 June 1943, Lilian Widawski was immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Icek Widawski, archive cards of Icec Widaswski and Clara Leon, a Dossier of Foreigners in Amsterdam/Widawski; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Clara Widawski-Leon and Lilian Widawski; website akevoth.org/mokum/burialpermits/Icek Widawski