Saartje van de Giessen was the sixth child of Salomon van de Giessen and Hanna Noot. Her brother Hermanus was the youngest of the nine children of the family, of whom already two have died before the war and three have survived the Holocaust. Their father Salomon was arrested during the big raid of 2 October 1942 in Amsterdam and sent to Westerbork where he that same day was put on transport to Au…