Biography

About Mina Heyman

Mina Heijman, daughter of Levi Heijman and Evalina van Praag, was unmarried. Since 10 September 1940 she resided with her mother, brother Meijer Philip and aunt Mina Heijman (born 1873) at Badhuisstraat 58 in Apeldoorn. A younger brother has died at age 2 in 1910. Her father has deceased in 1938. Only her sister Schoontje survived the Holocaust.

Mina Heijman worked as a servant-maid in the Apeldoornse Bosch, where she started at 14 July 1942 to work. Her previous job was seamstress. According her record from the archive of the Jewish Council of Amsterdm, she was safeguarded from deportation until further notice ("geperrt bis auf weiteres") and she gave the impression being a "useful labourer" in a good shape, but on 22 January 1943 she has been registered in transit camp Westerbork, where she had to stay in barack 73. On 2 February 1943 she has been deported to Auschwitz where she has been killed immediately upon arrival thee on 5 February 1943.

Municipality of Gendringen, informative letter of the Registrar dated 20 February 1953; Municipal Archives Apeldoorn, list of employees of the Apeldoornsche Bosch and the filce cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, record of Mina Heijman.