Helena Rabbie was the only daughter of Salomon Rabbie and Hester Velleman and born on 29 May 1925 in Amsterdam. Helena was working as domestic aid. On 24 July 1942, at the age of 17, she married the 24-year old Simon Jacob Stad, a warehouse clerk and son of Joseph Satad and Elizabeth Scheffer. They married, presumably to stay together in deportation to the so-called provison of additional work (Arbeitseinsatz) in Germany. However, already one week later Helena was deported to Auschwitz. Also her newlywed husband Simon Jacob Stad and her parents, Salomon and Hester Rabbie were put on transport to Auschwitz that date.
On arrival there Helena and Salomon were deployed as forced labourers, where they have died as a result of hardship or diseases, but their exact date of death is not known. It is therefore that after the war, the Ministry of Justice ordered the City of Amsterdam to draw up certificates of death for Helena Stad-Rabbie and her husband Simon Jacob Stad, in which is established that Helena Stad-Rabbie died in Auschwitz in the period, between 31 July 1942 and the course of September 1942 and Simon Jacob Stad died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Helena Rabbie and Simon Jacob Stad; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Helena Stad-Rabbie, Simon Jacob Stad, Salomon Rabbie and Hester Rabbie Velleman and the certificate of death for Helena Rabbie, year of death 1949, register 3, folio 75v, cert.nr. 239 and for Simon Jacob Stad, Reg. A52, folio 62v, nr. 364.