Bertje Leuw (* 1944) was born to Jewish parents who were already living underground in the Netherlands at the time of her birth. The family had to change hiding places nine times with baby Bertje, whose sister and brother, who – to elude the family’s capture – had been placed with foster families in the resistance at the respective ages of three years old and one and a half. After the Netherlands were liberated by the Allies, the family was reunited. In the case of her brother, this reunification took months of searching to achieve. As an adult, Leuw worked as a family therapist and as a lecturer in social work training. Bertje’s inner need to publicize literature about the Holocaust moved her to write book reviews for the newspaper editors of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee for more than 30 years. In 2015, Bertje Leuw published a book based on a play that her deaf brother had performed in sign language about the family history: “Kleine Maurits, een oorlogsverhaal in gebaren” (Little Maurits, a war story in signs).