Lea Levie

Lea Levie was a daughter of Tanchum Levie from Groningen and Hanna Ricardo Rocamora from Hamburg and was born in Hamburg on 6 October 1886. She was a domestic teacher by profession and had obtained her diplomas for it. She lived with her parents and brothers Jon, Iwan and Abraham and sister Sarah at home in Hamburg but came to the Netherlands from Germany in 1939, which her brothers and sister had…

In 1939 Lea Levie worked at the Alijah facility "de Vondelhof" in Amsterdam, doing the laundry.
Her former address was "Brahmsallee 15, Hamburg".
Source: Nationaal Archief, 2.04.58, inv. 95

GENERAL REMARKS regarding deportation transports to Auschwitz in 1943

The period from 24 August to 16 November 1943, during which 8 transports left directly for Auschwitz, namely: 7 from Westerbork and 1 from Vught can simply be called "Autumn transports 1943".

The Autumn transports of 1943

Of the 8 deportation transports that left the Netherlands during this period, some suffered a similar fate. …