Lina van Straten, usually called Liny, was a daughter of Louis van Straten and Minna Hes. She was born in Rumpt, (Municipality Deil) on 10 March 1916 and she was unmarried.
Lina van Straten left Deil for Rotterdam, where she was registered in the Peoples Registry on 23 November 1933. She lived there at Henegouwenlaan 68b till 16 April 1935 and worked as domestic aid. In 1935 she moved to Beatrijsstraat 32b, where she stayed till 3 June 1936. Meantime she aquired her nursing diploma A and her diploma maternity nursing reason why she moved to the Nieuwe Kerkstraat 135 in Amsterdam, where she was employed as nurse in the Nederlands Israëlitisch Mannen-en Vrouwenhuis (Dutch Israëlitic Home for elderly Men and Women).
On 9 Augustus 1941 she was engaged with Ben van Gelder from Eibergen. Ben was the nickname for Bettus van Gelder, born 1915 in Dedemsvaart as son of Benjamin van Gelder and Johanna Mogendorff. (see the anouncement of engagement in the photo carrousel). Probabely the engagement has become never a wedding.
Per 18 July 1942 Liny was exempted from deportation “because of function” by the Jewish Council and she worked as First Nurse and First X-ray assistant in the Nederlands Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis (N.I.Z.) (Dutch Israëlitic Hospital), which was established since 1885 at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 110-114 in Amsterdam.
On 13 August 1943 the N.I.Z. was required by the Germans “in view of the possibility of outbreak of epidemics”. Some members of the staff managed to escape;130 sufferers of contagious diseases, accompagnied with six nurses "were allowed" to the Joodse Invalide. All others, staff and patients had to go to Westerbork. However On 17 September the Joodse Invalide was largely emptied too. The complete liquidation followed on 29 September, just before Rosh Hashanah (Jewis New Year). (Source: book “Ondergang volume 1 by Dr. J. Presser, pages 384 & 385).
It is unkown whether Lina van Straten belonged to the group of six nurses who were allowed to the Joodse Invalide with the sick, or that she was one of those members of staff who managed to escape. The latter is not unlikely as Lina van Straten ended up in Westerbork on 28 October 1943, where she was locked in in the penal barrack 67.
On 15 March 1944 a transport of “only” 210 deportees left Westerbork for Bergen Belsen and Liny van Straten was one of them. In Bergen Belsen she lost her life eventually on 19 November 1944.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Lina van Straten; City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Lina van Straten; website wiewaswie.nl/births of Louis van Straten and Minna Hes; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Lina van Straten; website joodsamsterdam.nl/Nieuwe Keizersgracht and the wikipedia listing of Jew Transports from the Netherlands.