Ytske Hana (Ytha) Bijlstra (* 1943) grew up in the Netherlands as the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Protestant father. At the beginning of the German occupation, her mother received a forged passport from the resistance – without the “J” for “Jew” – so that she could move freely and look after her family. Ytha’s father was involved in the Dutch resistance movement. A hiding place was set up in their house, where family members and friends found shelter for days, weeks or even months, saving them from deportation by the National Socialists. On March 3, 1945, shortly before the liberation, Allied bombs were dropped on her district of Haagse Bos, which were actually aimed at the V2 rockets stationed there. Ytha’s mother fled to Voorburg with her two daughters and seven-year-old nephew Hein. Hein’s parents and over two hundred relatives were murdered in concentration camps. During the rest of her life, Ytha first worked as a social worker in Jerusalem and later as a psychotherapist in Amsterdam.