She lived almost her life, including during the war, in her parents home at Plantage Kerklaan 9 in Amsterdam.
[3][4] The back garden of her parents home bordered the courtyard of the Hollandsche Schouwburg and in 1942, Riezouw saw her Jewish friend, Greetje Velleman, from the window of her house.
Greetje is one of the first Jews to be imprisoned in the Hollandsche Schouwburg; and age seventeen Velleman was murdered in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
[3] Those photographs from 1942 by Riezouw were later shown at exhibitions worldwide,[5] and are part of the collection at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Lydia Riezouw died in 2005 at the Slotervaart Nursing Home in Amsterdam, where she lived the last years of her life.