Estella Blits nee Agsterribe was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1909. She was married to Samuel. Prior to WWII she lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During the war she was in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Estella was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Auschwitz, Poland, 17/09/1943.
In Memoriam - Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers, Nederlandse Oorlogsgravenstichting, `s-Gravenhage (Dutch Victims, Dutch War Victims Authority; courtesy of the Association of Yad Vashem Friends in Netherlands, Amsterdam)
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.