During the war Sientje and her sister Alida went to live with a relative in Waalwijk for safety reasons. In March 1942 Sientje went back to Amsterdam to take care of her father. Her father was taken to a Jewish Old People’s Home. Sientje then worked there on the linen room. In October 1942 the Old People’s Home was evacuated and the elderly were put on transport.
Sientje was deportated on 16 February 1943.
See for more information: Jack Didden, De laatste Joden in Waalwijk, in: M. van Loon e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis van de joden in Waalwijk 1690-1945 (Waalwijk, 1990) 80-109
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