Elisabeth "Elly" Cassutto (1931–1984) was the wife of Rev. Ernest H. Cassutto, a fellow Holocaust survivor from The Netherlands. Elly Rodrigues as she was known, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on April 23, 1931. She and her older brother, Henry, came from an observant Jewish family. She was a neighbor and schoolmate of Anne Frank. Like Anne, she and her family were forced to go into hiding when the Germans occupied the Netherlands during WW II. She and her brother were split up and sent to the Dutch countryside, to a small village called Hazerswoude-Dorp in the mid-west of Holland. They were hidden by two Christian sisters, Margriet "Grietje" Bogaards and Annie Ketel. During that time, Elly had to assimilate herself in the community as a Christian young girl and was told she had t