Sara, who still lived at home with her parents at Ruyschstraat 78, was already arrested and taken from home on 11 September 1942, together with her parents and carried off to Westerbork. From there she was deported to Auschwitz on 14 September 1942. Upon arrival there on 17 September 1942, Sara and her mother Margaretha Busnach-van West, were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Achive of Amsterdam, archive card of Sara Busnach; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Sara Busnach and information about the 14 September 1942 transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz from the publication Auschwitz volume III, edited in Ocober 1952 by the Dutch Red Cross.
Sara Busnach was a member of the Socialisties Jeugdverbond. Subsequently in 1935 she became a member of the Revolutionair Socialistisch Jeugdverbond.
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Sara Busnach joined the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile factory in Amsterdam on 6 March 1939. On Wednesday, 11 November 1942, around 4:30 PM, Willy Lages conducted the Sicherheitspolizei raid on the Hollandia factories. All exits were blocked, and the Jewish staff members were taken away that evening. Photographs of all workers taken away that evening, as well as those deported previously, appear in the 'Boek der tranen' [Book of tears].
Jewish Historical Museum, Documents collection, inv.nr B1376, 'Boek der tranen' [Book of tears]