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In a Jewish hospice in Amsterdam, the survivor of Auschwitz, Lotty Huffener-Veffer, died Friday at the age of 97. His family informed the ANP news agency. Huffener-Veffer was best known for his efforts after the Second World War to keep alive the memory of the Jewish persecution.
Amsterdam was arrested in 1943 with the rest of her family and transported to Camp Vught. His sister and his parents were briefly later expelled to the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland, where they were gassed immediately upon arrival.
Lotty Veffer remained in Vught, but was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. She had to work near the extermination camp. At the beginning of 1945, when the Russians advanced, they had to join the so-called death march: through the freezing cold, they passed thirteen camps. She was liberated in April 1945.
On Chic
Via Denmark and Sweden, Veffer returned to Amsterdam in August 1945. She had nothing and no one, and the first night she was slept on a bench in the Apollolaan in Amsterdam. "At chic," she called it later herself.
After the war, Huffener-Veffer did a lot to keep the Holocaust in the spotlight. In this way, she ensured that the Lost Children's Monument was installed near Camp Vught. On this memorial are the names of all 1269 deported children
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She was also co-prosecutor of camp guard John Demjanjuk and she often made her story in primary schools. Last year, a bench was placed on the Apollolaan in Amsterdam to honor it.
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