Elfriede was living in the orphanage in Dinslaken. From there she came to the Netherlands with a Kindertransport on January 4th, 1939. Like many children she was moved around the country very often. She lived in Bergen aan Zee (Zeehuis) from January 4th until March 22nd. In the Bondshuis in Driebergen until June 29th, 1939. In the Achterklooster in Rotterdam until July 17th. 1939. Then she moved in with the Coerant family in Rotterdam.
In May 1940 she moved into the Jewish orphanage in Rotterdam.
In October 1942 Mr. Post Uiterweer wrote a letter, saying he was Elfriede's guardian. He states that Elfriede is not Jewish and that she never should have been made a member of the Jewish Community.
Apparently this request was approved. Only days before the rest of the orphanage was taken to Camp Westerbork Elfriede was released. With help of the quakers she found an address in Amersfoort. It is not known whom she lived with.
On May 5th, 1945, liberation day, she was killed by a bullet, by accident. One version of the accident is that she was looking out of the window from the attic where she had been in hiding because there was fighting on the street and then a bullet hit her. Another version is that she was on the street, at the Varkensmarkt, when a bullet killed her.
During the war her father was in Shanghai and her mother in Manchester. Her mother wrote to the Dutch Red Cross to discover the whereabouts of her daughter. She only found her grave.
Until the nineties her grave was unmarked until the city of Amersfoort placed a tombstone on the grave.
Despite an article in the "Amersfoortse Courant" on January 6th, 2010, nobody has come forward with any additional information about Elfriede. It is unknown where she lived in Amersfoort.
More information can be found here:
Dokin website about Elfriede Ingenkamp