Sophia Zegerius, daughter of Meijer Hartog Zegerius and Duifje Lap, married 31 March 1920 in Zaandam Levie Crost, a son of Ephraim Crost and Bloeme Trompetter.
Sophia Zegerius was born into a family of ten children, of whom one son has passed away before the war in Het Apeldoornse Bos and two sons have survived the Holocaust. The other seven, she self, Hartog, Levie, Elisabeth, Michiel, Lion en Barend have been all killed during the Shoah.
It is not known when the Crost family arrived in Westerbork. Known is however that all of them, namely Levie Crost, his wife Sophia Zegerius and his children Max Louis and Eduard were put on transport to Auschwitz on 14 September 1942. This transport made a stop in Kozel were 120 boys and men between 15 and 50 years of age were forced to leave the train, about 80 km west from Auschwitz. They were employed as forced laborers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz.
Sophia's husband Levie Crost was one of the 120 men who had to leave the train in Kozel and ended up in the forced labor camp Blechhammer, but those who remained in the train were transported onwards to Auschwitz to be killed.
On arrival there at 17 September 1942 Sophia Crost-Zegerius was immediately killed. Her sons Max Louis and Eduard lost their lives in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Meijer Hartog Zegerius, archive cards of Joseph and Jacob Zegerius and website www.wiewaswie.nl, the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie Crost, Sophia Zegerius and Max Louis and Eduard Crost.