Bernard Weijel married Lea Aptroot on 18 May 1910 in Enschede. The only child of the couple was Jonas. The family lived on the Kalanderstraat in Enschede, where they owned a delicatessen. During the Depression they went out of business. They moved to the Patmos neighbourhood, where they opened a shop selling sweets and lottery tickets.
H.E. Dominicus, Mauthausen. Een gedenkboek (2e herziene en uitgebreide druk; Amsterdam 1999) , 169; H. Kooger, Joods leven in Dieren, Rheden en Velp (Zutphen, 1987) 66
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