Roeween Treep (* 1943) was born in the Dutch collection and deportation camp Westerbork. From there, more than 100,000 Jews were transported to the Eastern European extermination camps. When Roeween’s mother learned that her deportation to Auschwitz was imminent, she managed to escape the camp with her six-month-old son Roeween, from the heavily secured camp and went into hiding with her baby in Amsterdam, until the liberation of the Netherlands by the Allies. After the war, she was unable to take care of Roeween. Her baby son Roeween was taken away from her and went through numerous foster families and orphanages until the age of 14. Later, Roeween worked in the graphic industry in various places. At the age of 21 he moved to England where he married and had 3 children. At the age of 31 he moved with his family to Israel where he worked for an international computer company. In 1988, Roeween Treep returned to the Netherlands.