Liesbeth was the unmarried daughter of Schlomo Siegfried and Amalie Cohn, née Schiller of Schönlanke; her siblings were Maximilian, Salli, Alfred, Irene and Erna. Her father had died 1895 in Schönlanke and her mother in 1936. Liesbeth had moved to Berlin where, prior to her early immigration to the Netherlands on 22 November 1933, she lived in Charlottenburg, Friedbergstrasse 32. In Amsterdam, working initially as a nanny, she lived at Minervalaan 76 III; by 5 November 1937 she had moved to new premises at Herculesstraat 20 III, her last known address, where she worked as a seamstress. On 16 January 1943 Liesbeth was arrested, taken to Camp Westerbork and deported the following week on 23 January 1943, together with five hundred and fifteen men, women and children to Auschwitz where she was murdered on arrival on 26 January 1943.
Of Liesbeth's two sisters, Irene (Rosenzweig) had been deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in July 1942, followed by sister Erna (Flatau) in August that year. Liesbeth's brother Salli died in Berlin in 1940, and her brother Alfred, born 3 April 1879 in Schönlanke, took his own life by drowning in Erlangen on 6 January 1939; his last resting place is on the Jewish cemetery of Erlangen where he is remembered by a memorial at the cemetery's entrance. The fate of Liesbeth's brother Maximillian could not yet be ascertained.
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