Levie (known as Louis) Hillesum was married to Riva Bernstein. The couple had a daughter Esther|(known as Etty) and two sons: Jacob (known as Jaap) and Michael (known as Mischa).
Levie Hillesum was a secondary school teacher of classical languages in Middelburg, Hilversum and, from 1924, in Deventer, where the family lived on the Duymaer van Twiststraat. In 1928 he became headmaster at the Stede…