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Yehudith Heymans-Gudema was born in Amsterdam. She survived the Holocaust. Her parents Jacob and Rebekka Gudema – Van Amerongen as well as her little brother Benjamin Louis arrived at Westerbork transit camp on March 6, 1943. On March 10, 1943, they were deported to Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. On March 13, 1943, immediately upon arrival, they lived their last day on earth and were murdered in one of Sobibor’s gas chambers. Yehudith grew up as an orphan. She lived under many names. Hidden from the world, Yehudith was guided by a sense of not belonging anywhere. Immediately after her marriage, she and her husband emigrated/immigrated to Israel, where they brought their two children, a daughter and a son, into the world. Due to a busy life and daily routine, many questions remained unanswered. In one of her many attempts to find answers, Yehudith visited the Holocaust Museum and Institute Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. By a strange coincidence, she came into contact with an Israeli archaeologist who was to conduct upcoming excavations at Sobibor. Not much later and through an unexpected phone call, she got in touch with one of her rescuers, who found her by discovering a page of Testimony kept at Yad Vashem. He was a former friend and neighbor of her biological parents. The above contact with the archaeologist and also this conversation would not only turn her everyday world upside down, but also become a beginning of a long search into the past and eventually finding family still alive. Finding answers to many questions. Thus was born an autobiography (and a still unfinished) exciting diary called: ‘SEARCHING TO KNOW’
