It is probable that Lotte moved here after staying a while at her aunt's place in Utrecht.
This was very likely her residence while she worked as the owner of a hair-salon on the Elandsgracht, not far from the Jordaan neighborhood.

It is possible that after being engaged to Robert Pollack, Lotte moved in with the family Pollack who all lived above the lunchroom and ice-salon "Delicia".

According to the registration cards of their respective husbands, Charlotte married on the same date in Amsterdam as her sister Edith.

According to the registration cards of their respective husbands, Edith married on the same date in Amsterdam as her sister Charlotte.

The family Pollack was initially "sperred" (exempted) from deportation due to the fact that their lunchroom "Delicia" was ordered to provide food for the rounded up people that were being held at the "Hollandsche Schouwburg".

However, as soon as all people were put on the trains to Westerbork, the Pollack family was also put on transport to Westerbork.

After a short while in Westerbork, Charlotte was put on transport XXIV/7 -540 on September 6, 1944 to Theresienstadt.

Upon arrival in Theresienstadt, the women and men were separated.
This was the last time she saw her first husband Robert Pollack.
A friend of Robert ordered his wife, Nanny (nee Leefsma) to stay close to Charlotte. If anyone can survive this ordeal, it must be Charlotte, he argued.
You stay close to Lotte and do exactly what she tells you to do. Then you have a chance to stay alive. He was so right.
Both husbands perished in the Shoah, but Charlotte and Nanny stayed together and notwithstanding the shear impossible situations and hardship, both women survived.
When at a certain point in time, the Germans during roll call asked women to step forward if they wanted to join their husbands, Charlotte had to grab Nanny and told her to stay put. She told her that only G'd would decide if they should see their husbands ever again, not the Germans! All women who stepped forward were put on transport directly to the gas chambers....

Due to severe hunger and appalling sanitary conditions, Charlotte fell ill to hunger edema, causing her belly to swell.
After only three weeks in Theresienstadt, she was sent to death-camp Auschwitz for extermination on October 1st. 1944 on transport Em-1388.

Because of her deteriorating health (severe hunger edema with swollen belly) and maybe because of the need to move out as many inmates before the arrival of the Red Cross delegation to Theresienstadt, Charlotte was put on transport to Auschwitz for extermination.
For that reason she has never received a number tattooed in her arm.
Upon arrival at Auschwitz she had to stand in front of Dr. Mengele who whisked her to the left to where all the old and sick people were ordered by him.
But a second after he ordered her to move out to the left row, Mengele was called to the phone behind him. He turned around and Charlotte, who immediately understood the meaning of his order, went the other way and joined the group of young and healthy people standing at the right hand side of the train platform which was the arrival and selection area of Auschwitz II (Birkenau). No one saw apparently which direction Mengele wanted Charlotte to go and therefore, no one interfered in her "walk to life" direction.
She was immediately hidden by the other women and brought to the sick bay of the camp where she stayed under a false identity until her hunger edema got better and the swelling disappeared.
As soon as she could take the place of a dead inmate at roll call, she left the sick bay and became an "ordinary" inmate of Auschwitz II..
Because the daily life in the camp was highly organized and she did not experienced personal maltreatment (except the daily routine in freezing winter weather having to stand naked for hours during roll call), Charlotte had no very bad memories of the several weeks she stayed in Auschwitz II.
Looking back to the mistreatment and abuse she had to undergo in the next camp for months, she saw Auschwitz -Birkenau as a relative "paradise"......