Elisabeth van Molen was born on 22 May 1943 in Groningen in the Netherlands. Nothing is known about her parents or other relatives. At the age of one and a half, Elisabeth came to Lüneburg as part of the NSV Youth Welfare West Action with a transport of Dutch children from children’s homes who were to be brought to safety from the approaching front. She was initially housed in the refugee reception camp at the Wilhelm Raabe School. Because Elisabeth had a disability, the district office manager requested her immediate admission to the »Children’s ward«. Elisabeth was placed in House 25. She was lively and cheerful when she was admitted. After that, she was only seen by a doctor once, the day before her death. After only ten days in the »Children’s ward«, she was murdered. The official cause of death was »pneumonia«. The medical record was falsified by secretary Karola Kleim, who retroactively entered in the admission log that Elisabeth had already had a lung disease when she was admitted. A red underline was added to make this addition appear credible. In reality, Elisabeth van Molen was murdered. She died on 19 October 1944.
