Hans Joachim Tanchum Levie

Hans Joachim Tanchum Levie was born in Berlin-Zehlendorf on 17 March 1925 as the son of Abraham Levie and Hilde Goldschmidt. He moved with his parents from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main at some point and from there he came with them to Amsterdam in 1935. Hans Joachim was unmarried and a furrier by profession, his father a merchant in packaging articles.

Between the end of March 1935 and the beginnin…

Abraham Levie, the youngest son of Tanchum (Theodor) Levie from Groningen and Hannah Ricardo Rocamora from Hamburg, was born in Hamburg on 9 November 1887. He had two brothers, Jon and Iwan and two sisters, Sarah and Lea who were all born in Hamburg. The oldest sister Sarah died however at the age of 50 in Hilversum in 1930.

Abraham Levie was a merchant in packaging articles. He married Hilde Gold…

Deportation periods in 1943

Apart from the "Sobibor period" (2 March to 20 July 1943), two deportation periods can be distinguished in 1943, viz. the period from 11 January to 2 February 1943, in which 9 transports left directly for Auschwitz, viz. 8 from Westerbork and 1 from Apeldoorn (for the sake of brevity to be called "Spring transports 1943"), and the period from 24 August to 16 November 1…

"Arbeitslager Oud Leusden” was a labor camp near Camp Amersfoort. The official name of Camp Amersfoort was” Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort”, abbreviated PDA.

From 18 August 1941, the PDA was in use until the spring of 1943, when it was closed for a short time to be renovated and expanded and more and more prisoners were sent to Amersfoort. They all had to be put to work. Companies in the…

The person who is mentioned on this page, belonged to a group of approximately 70 men who were “lent” from the Vught concentration camp to the PDA, the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort, on 20 May 1943. They were housed and put to work in the Labor camp “Oud Leusden”, to dig a shooting range for tanks at the Infantry Barracks on the corner of Van Campenstraat in Amersfoort. Because of their…