Levi van Thijn (also known as Louis), was a son of Benjamin van Thijn and Aaltje Bartels. He was the eldest of three sons of Benjamin and Aaltje and a tailor by trade. On 28 December 1938 he married in Amsterdam Betje Trompetter, (mostly called Bep), a daughter of Isaac Trompetter and Marianne Gosler. The couple had a daughter in 1941, named Alice.
Levi and Betje lived after their wedding for some…