Rebecca Barend was a daughter of Gerrit Barend and Heintje Visser. She was born 19 June 1894 in Amsterdam. She wasn't quite healthy and since 10 April 1914 she was regularly admitted as a patient for treatment in the Dutch Israëlitic Hospital at Nieuwe Kerkstraat 135 in Amsterdam. On 11 March 1921 she and others were transferred to the Jewish Psychatric Hospital “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch” in Apeldoorn, due to rebuilding renovations in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat.
In January 1943 the Germans had decided to evacuate Het Apeldoornsche Bosch and in the night of Thursday 21 to Friday 22 January 1943, all patients were loaded in trucks and transported to waiting freight trains. The next morning the train departed with nearly 1200 patients and 50 staff members, and went directly to Auschwitz, where patients and staff imediately were killed upon arrival there on 25 January 1943 in the gas chambers there, if they hadn't already died during that terrible train journey.
Also Rebecca Barend belonged to the patiens who were killed that 25th of January 1943 in Auschwitz.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Gerrit Barend; Special Registers/Nieuwe Kerkstraat 135 Amsterdam and archive card of Rebecca Barend; website coda.nl/ Rebecca Barend/register of patients 1921, book 74 pages 49 and 50 ; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Rebecca Barend and the Wikipedia website Het Apeldoornsche Bosch (only in the Dutch language) and additions of a visitor of the website.