Levie van Straten was the eldest of the three children of Sara Sealtiel and Elkan van Straten. He worked as an office clerk for an insurance firm and married 16 April 1931 in Amsterdam Elisabeth Peekel, a daughter of Simon Peekel and Henderina Mendels. On 15 April 1933 their son Harry was born.
The Van Straten-Peekel couple lived at the Kuinderstraat 43 3rd floor in Amsterdam-South, located parall…