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Hélène Egger
Hélène Petter-Egger (21 November 1929 – 4 February 2024) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor.[1] BiographyEgger was born in Baarn, Netherlands in 1929. As a young girl she had lost her mother who died from a brain tumour.[2] The second world war broke out when she was 10 years old.[3] Due to the German invasion of the Netherlands, she left her family to live in Amsterdam with her grandparents.[4] As Leentje Bakker, she lived in Vorstenbosch from mid-1944 to May 1945.[5] By the end of the war she was the only surviving member of her immediate family.[6] She learned that her two brothers had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp.[7] She was later adopted by her extended family including her grandparents, uncle and aunt.[8] She married a non-Jewish man in 1953 and did not speak about her past with him or their children until later in life.[9] She first became a contemporary witness in 1997 in a video interview she gave for the Shoah Foundation.[8] Her daughter, the newsreader Debby Petter, wrote a book on her mothers life.[10] The book was later adapted into a play.[11] In 2018, a film based on her life “Ik ben er nog” premiered in Las Vegas and won an award.[12] In 2024, she died in her hometown of Baarn at the age of 95.[5] References
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