Death
In 1936, Gerson relocated with relatives to the Netherlands, fleeing Nazi persecution. She had married a second time to Max Sluizer (b. June 24, 1906). On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands and the Jews there were subject to the same anti-Semitic laws and restrictions as in Germany. After several years of living under oppressive Nazi occupation, the Gerson family began to plan to escape. In 1942, Gerson and her family were seized trying to flee to Switzerland, a neutral nation in World War II Europe. The family were sent by railroad car to transit camp Westerbork bound for the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland. Dora Gerson at the age of 43 along with her husband and their two children, Miriam Sluizer (b. Nov 19, 1937) and Abel Juda Sluizer (b. May 21, 1940), all were murdered in Auschwitz on February 14, 1943.
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