Hendrika Goudeketting (usually called Henny), is born 8 January 1922 as daughter of Raphaël Goudeketting and Lina Jons. She lived at 2e Jan Steenstraat 25 1st floor in Amsterdam, but in early 1942 she moved to Swammerdamstraat 31 3rd floor, where her cousin Samuel Goudeketting lived, a son of Aäron Goudeketting (a brother of her father) and Judith Roeg.
Samuel and Henny lived at Swammerdamstraat till the moment that they were both taken out of their homes in the night of 1-2 April 1943 and were sent to concentration camp Vught. They had to stay there till 21 September when they were deported to Auschwitz on 21 September via transit camp Westerbork, This transport contained in total 979 deportees, among them 300 persons who had to leave Vught one day earlier and were added to the transport which arrived in Auschwitz 24 September 1943
Samuel, as well Henny Goudeketting passed by the selection for the gas chambers and arrived in the camp. Henny Goudeketting ended up in experiment block 10 but eventually survived the Shoah. She could return to Amsterdam and after the war she has been remarried. Her husband Samuel Goudeketting no doubt was selected to do hard labor but he - presumably as a result of hardship or deseases – was killed 8 January 1944 in Auschwitz.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Samuel Goudeketting; residence card of Swammerdamstraat 31; list of Jew-transports from the Netherlands and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samuel Goudeketting and Hendrika Goudeketting-Goudeketting.