Margaretha Swart was the ninth child of Jesaja Swart and Saartje Levitus. She was born at 10 Valkenburgerstraat in Amsterdam. After completing the Jewish school on the Valkenburgerstraat, she worked as a maidservant. Because her parents thought she would be safer, they allowed her to move to the Paedagogium Achisomog, part of the Apeldoornse Bos. She moved to Apeldoorn on 1 March 1942.
When the Apeldoornse Bos was evacuated on Thursday, 21 January 1943, and all residents, patients and staff were deported from the station in Apeldoorn in cattle cars directly to Auschwitz, Margaretha Swart was among them.
A photocopy remains of Margaretha Swart's birth certificate, as well as photocopies of letters that she wrote from Apeldoorn on 12 December 1942 and 20 January 1943 and of a postcard dated 20 January 1943.
Joods Historisch Museum, Documentenverzameling, inv.nr 10289, ordner 6
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