Sara de Jong-Santilhano

Leendert Philip de Jong, a son of Abraham de Jong and Sara Pop, was born in Amsterdam on 14 July 1917. He was the second in the family of four children; his sister was Cara (1912); his brothers Philip Leendert (1914), Leendert Philip (1917) and Maurice (1925). Only Philip Leendert survived the Shoah, the others and their parents were all murdered during the Shoah.

Abraham de Jong, (Leendert Philip…

Sara, also known as Sientje, Santilhano worked as a saleslady in a clothes-shop in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam.
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Leendert was sent to the 'Landweer' labor camp in Appelscha in April 1942. Fortunately, he was not one of the first, because those who were forced to go to the camps in January and February already suffered greatly from the harsh winter that prevailed at that time.

We lived in a very nerve-wracking time then, with inhumane German measures against us every day. That was almost impossible to process…