The winter was indescribably cold. People froze to death and died of hunger. In February 1942, Sally's mother died of typhoid fever. “I saw her the night before. I had snuck in to see her when I learned she was sick, as my little brother Siegwart stood watch.”

A week later, all children, along with many women and elderly people from Jungfernhof, were shot in a nearby forest. Among them were Sally's brothers Lothar and Erich. His father and his brother Siegwart were transferred to the Riga ghetto. Their traces are lost there.