Sara Hegett was the spouse of Salomon Josel Lichtenholz, a son of Mendel Lichtenholz and Sosje Lichtenholz. 24 October 1918 she arrived with her husband Salomon Lichtenholz and daughters Hedel (1913) and Millie (1916) from London in Rotterdam, where they have lived in at Schiedamsedijk 92b till the moment they moved medio 1924 to Witte de Withstraat 33a and per 2 August 1935 to nr. 57b. Meantime, a third dautgter of Sara and Salomon was born: Cornelia Maria in 1920. Salomon Josel Lichtenholz passed away in Rotterdam 13 Februari 1932.
Sara Hegett and her daughter Cornelia Maria Lichtenholz were registered in Camp Westerbork 10 April 1943 and after a short stay in barrack 57 deported 20 April to Sobibor, where they were killed immediately upon arrival there 23 April 1943.
Her son Mendel, born 1902 in Poland, lived per 17 Juli 1940 also at Witte de Withstraat 57b. As far as known he arrived in Rotterdam 18 December 1929, moved in 1930 to Den Haar but returned to Rotterdam July 1940. Mendel was also registered in Camp Westerbork 10 April 1943 and stayed in barrack 57 too. 20 April he was deported to Sobibor and toghether with his mother Sara Hegett and sister Cornelia Maria Lichtenholz killed there upon arrival 23 April 1943.
Milly Lichtenholz survived the Holocaust. She married 3 September 1939 in Rotterdam Kiwa Lifschitz. In a letter of 11 August 1945 from the British Ambassy in Moskou, Milly reports that up from the first day of the German-Russian war she and her husband were together with Manuel Chasler and his wife Bellina Davidoff. She stayed 8 days in a Dutch camp and were sent then to Berlin were they stayed one day and from there they arrived via Istanbul in the Soviet Union.
When they arrived at Leniakan (Armenia) 27 July 1941, they were arrested by the N.K.V.D. 29 July Manuel Chasler was seen the last time in Jerivan, the capital of Soviet Armenia, were he was arrested again by the N.K.V.D. Since then, he was never seen again. Mrs. Milly Lifschitz-Lichtenholz and Mrs. Bellina Chasler-Davidoff werd sent to Siberia with other women and children in December 1941. Bellina Chasler died there in a hospital August 1942 and Milly Lifschitz-Lichtenholz has buried her there.
About daughter Hedel Lichtenholz is known that she moved 17 October 1940 from Rotterdam to Rembrandtlaan 18 in Arnhem. Possibly she has survived the war.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Salomon Josel Lichtenholz and Mendel Lichtenholz; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council registration cards of Sara Lichtenholz-Hegett, Mendel Lichtenholz and Cornelia Lichtenholz. Other sources: family registration card of Kiwa Lifschitz and the letter of 11-8-1945 from the British Ambassy.