of prisoners to be released from Vught. Erika's name was placed on that list. Post-war and death Erika was reunited with her children upon her release. She was weak from her camp experience, and stayed at the house for most of the remaining year of the occupation. Stefan Heymann was a prisoner at Buchenwald when it was liberated in 1945. Erika and Stefan did not reunite after the war, as Stefan wanted the family to move to the Russian-occupied zone of Germany, but the children wanted to stay in the Netherlands. Erika’s leukemia worsened and she died on 6 April 1950. Dieter and Sonja scattered her ashes in the North Sea. Righteous Among the Nations Dieter Heymann and Chanan Floersheim became reacquainted in 2003. The Heymann family, at Floersheim's suggestion, applied to Yad Vashem to have Erika declared one of the "Righteous Among the Nations"; this was granted in 2010. The award was presented at the Holocaust Museum Houston in 2011; Chanan Floersheim flew from Israel to Houston for the ceremony. Erika Heymann is survived by her son Dieter, his three children and four grandchildren, and by the three children and seven grandchildren of her daughter Sonja, who died in 2012. Footnotes German Righteous Among the Nations 1895 births 1950 deaths