Engelina Sealtiel, the second daughter of David Sealtiel and Wilhelmina Woudstra, was born on the Rechtboomsloot in central Amsterdam. The poor Jewish family had at least thirteen children by 1910; their father, a diamond cutter, died in 1924, and their mother in 1934. Only four children survived the Holocaust. Engelina, unmarried and likely uneducated, worked as a maid and later as a housekeeper, often living with her sisters Rebecca and Clara, both shop assistants. In 1940 she lived at the Fernandes Nunes Home, possibly as a housekeeper. In May 1942 she moved to Zomerdijkstraat 23, from where she was deported to Westerbork and then Sobibor, where she was murdered two days after her 52nd birthday in 1943.
