Watchman48 (@1Watchman48)

Leah Goldschmidt - 1 year old 1943-1944 Leah Goldschmidt was born in 1943 in Amsterdam, in hiding. She passed away in 1944. She was 1. Leah was born in a concealed room. She never saw sunlight freely, never walked in a park. Her mother whispered lullabies to keep her quiet from those searching below. Westerbork is a Dutch city, known from the tragic fate of the Jewish community in this country during the II WW. At the end of 1941, Nazis decided to locate in Westerbork so called transit camp, from which the mass transports of Jewish people were sent to camps in the east of Europe. These convoys were arriving to Auschwitz-Birkenau since 15 July 1942 till 23 February 1943. Between July 1942 and February 1943, and again from August 1943 on, 57,552 people were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. From Westerbork to Auschwitz (24 Aug 1943 - 3 Sept 1944): 11,985 deportees, 588 survivors. Leah Goldschmidt was deported in 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1-year-olds were murdered immediately with their mothers. By the summer of 1943, most Jews in the Netherlands had been deported to death camps, with 60,000 sent to Auschwitz and over 34,000 sent to Sobibor. While the last train to deport Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz left on 3 September 1944, by that point the Germans and their Dutch collaborators had already deported some 107,000 Jews to death camps – only about 5,200 of them survived. Leah Goldschmidt was one of those children. Her name is preserved in Dutch memorial archives, ensuring that a 1-year-old Jewish girl murdered at Auschwitz is remembered individually. #HolocaustRemembrance #Auschwitz #LeahGoldschmidt #neverforget