Susanna Ledermann

Susanna Ledermann was born in Berlin on October 7, 1928, the daughter of the lawyer Franz Anton Ledermann and his wife Ilse Luise Ledermann, née Citroen. She also had one sister, Barbara, who was born in 1925. The family lived at Genthiner Strasse 5a (today No. 14).

To escape Nazi persecution, the family moved to the Netherlands in October 1933 and settled in Amsterdam. Susanna attended a Montessori school there. She met Anne Frank, with whom she was a close friend until the Frank family went into hiding.

With the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, the Ledermann family once again faced the harassment they had left Germany to escape. Susanna had to change schools and go to a Jewish school. While Barbara Ledermann managed to survive the persecution in an Amsterdam hiding place, Susanna Ledermann and her parents were interned in the Westerbork camp on June 20, 1943. From there they were deported to Auschwitz on November 16, 1943, where they were murdered on November 19, 1943.