Edith Zegerius (* 1941) was born in Utrecht as the child of Jewish parents. When mass deportations began in the Netherlands in the summer of 1942, her father went into hiding in The Hague and her mother in the province of Friesland. Before that, they entrusted their young daughter to the care of a non-Jewish family in Amsterdam. There, the housemaid Luise Reimann in particular looked after Edith. Her father was betrayed and murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp; her mother survived in hiding and was reunited with her daughter after the liberation in 1945 – at first against Edith’s will, since after the years of separation she felt no emotional bond with her mother. She remained closely connected in friendship with Luise Reimann until the latter’s death. At the age of 20, Edith married Harry Zegerius, who had escaped persecution in hiding, and later worked as a hairdresser.