Lion Beek, also known as Leon Beek, was a son of Philip Jacob Beek and Rosette Rijnveld. He worked as messenger boy and tailor and was born 7 July 1962 in Den Helder. He died ag the age of 78 on 21 March 1941 in Amsterdam. He lived then at the Joodsche Invalide at Weesperplein 1 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Lion Beek married 17 December 1902 in Weesp at the age o…