Werner Jany met Martha E. (b. 1920) from Vienna at the Werkdorp in Nieuwesluis (Wieringermeer) around 1938/39.
They were being trained for the Aliyah by a Zionist organization.
They fell in love.
They spent a happy time together until the German army invaded the Netherlands.
All the young people from the Werkdorp were first brought to Amsterdam, but eventually, the boys, including Werner, were deported to Mauthausen.
Martha was first taken to Westerbork and from there she was deported to Bergen-Belsen. She was rescued miraculously in an exchange transport in 1944 and taken to Israel.
There she lived for about 10-15 years and later arrived to New York where she still lives today at 95 (March 2015).
I met Martha in 2007 when I was studying in New York.
She told me about Werner.
He was "the most handsome, intelligent, sweet, sportive, educated and loving" boy in the world.
Martha has pictures of Werner and her together and she is in posession of a love letter written by Werner in 1944 from Mauthausen, shortly before he was killed.
She read it to me over and over again.
Werner was Martha's only love. Nobody could ever compete with him!
May Werner Jany not be forgotten.
Elisabeth Fraller (Vienna, Austria)