Already on 15 April 1933, Celina Rueff was admitted to the Israelitic Psychiatric Hosptial “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch” in Apeldoorn. She stayed there until 17 May 1934, after which she was transferred to the Psychiatric Institution “Provinciaal Ziekenhuis Meer-en-Berg” in Santpoort in the municipality of Bloemendaal. Celina Dekker-Rueff stayed there as a patient until 15 Januari 1943 and she appears on a list of deported and never returned residents of the hospital.
On the website “Bloemdaal 1940-1945”, at “the year 1943”, the evacuation of Meer-en-Berg is highlighted and it is described that on 4 January 1943, the Germans claimed the buildings of the Proviciaal Ziekenhuis in relation to the construction of the Atlantikwall. All 1334 patients and 404 staff members must be evacuated. This happened with seven D-trains between 4 January and 5 February 1943.
Celina Rueff belonged to the group of 200 female patients from Santpoort, who ended up in Warnsveld. A total of 10 of those 200 ladies were Jewish, some others were in hiding. In according to the registers of the ONG (Oud en Nieuwe Gasthuis), some patients and Celina arrived in Warnsveld on 15 January 1943 and on 8 April, Celina was transferred to the so-called “Israelisch Noodziekenhuis” in Zutphen (Israelitic Emergcy hospital) and then, in the night from 9-10 April she was put on transport from there to Westerbork.
On 13 April 1943, deportation to Sobibor followed, where on arrival there on 16 April 1943, Celina Dekker-Rueff was immediately killed.
Sources include the Coda-archives of Apeldoorn/peoples registry; website Joods.nl/the unknown story of Jewish patients in a non-Jewish intstitution during WWII – (only dutch language); website Stichting Oorlogshistorie Bloemendaal/ Bloemendaal 1940-1945 (only dutch language; John Stienen/researcher Groot Graffel Zuthpen.