Sara Pachter was a daughter of Jacob Pachter and Rachel van der Molen. She married 18 Jne 1924 Emanuel van Thijn in Amsterdam, a son of Barend van Thijn and Roosje van Thijn. Sara and Emanuel together had two children, namely Roosje in 1926 and Samuel Barend in 1933. Both the children have survied the Holocaust.
After their marriage, Sara and Emanuel lived at Tilanusstraat 49 in Amsterdam but moved over in October 1933 to Nieuwe Prinsengracht 18 3rd floor. The family managed to go into hiding whereby Sara's spouse Emanuel van Thijn and both her children Roosje and Samuel Barend could survive the war.
However, at some point, Sara has been arrested - presumably by treason or otherwise - and ended up in Westerbork 14 July 1944 where she was locked in in penal barrack 67. On 3 September she was deported as a penal case with the last transport to Auschwitz but on arrival, she was not immediately sent to the gaschambers. It is possible that she had to do some hard labor in the camp before she was killed there. Her official date of death was establische as 1 October 1944.
City archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Emanuel van Thijn, archive card of Sara Pachter; list of Jew-transports from the Netherlands and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel van Thijn and Sara van Thijn-Pachter.