Naomi Roza Waas (* 1942) grew up in Amsterdam. Her mother had fled from Hungary to the Netherlands in 1936 and her father worked as a funeral director for the Jewish community in Amsterdam. When the family was ordered by the National Socialists to report for transportation to Westerbork, they went underground. Through contacts with the Rengelink resistance group, a hiding place was organized for little Naomi. After a hiding place in the municipality of Hoofddorp, she finally ended up with a family in Friesland, where she was passed off under a false name as a war refugee from Rotterdam. After the war, Naomi learned that her mother and grandparents had been murdered in Sobibor. She was taken in by a Jewish foster family. Naomi was burdened by a heavy sense of guilt at having survived, unlike most of her relatives.