Anna Matteman

Anna Matteman, born on 5th July 1926 in Amsterdam is not recorded to have had a profession because, at the age of 15 or 16 she was transported from her home in the Netherlands to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In 1941, just before the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, there were around 80,000 Jewish people living in Amsterdam, many of which had fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s when Hitler came to power. Anna Matteman being one of these individuals, it is probably that her family and community were also moved to Auschwitz-Birkenau at the same time, as part of the Nazi attempt to transport all Jews to the concentration camps. On 17th September 1942, Anna Matteman was murdered, most likely with her family.