Betty Konijn was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1931 to Mijer and Margaretha nee Swart. She was a pupil and child. Prior to WWII she lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During the war she was in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Betty was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Sobibor, Poland, 02/07/1943.
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.