In 1901 Meijer de Lieme moved from Beverwijk to Haaksbergen, where he became an assistant at the butcher shop of Salomon Koopman Frankenhuis on the Oostenstraat. In 1904 he was summoned for military service and had to report to IJmuiden.
In 1908 Meijer de Lieme returned to Haaksbergen, where he moved in with Salomon Koopman Frankenhuis. In 1910 he married Naatje van Bergen. Their son Jozeph (known as Jopie) was born on 10 March 1911.
In 1911 the butcher Koopman Frankenhuis moved to Enschede. Meijer de Lieme became the chief occupant of the Oostenstraat premises. In 1923 he took over the butcher shop and applied to the municipal authorities for permission to build a new residence-cum-shop across the street. In 1926 he opened a modern butcher shop there.
In the Depression year 1933 the Roman-Catholic workingmen's association St. Joseph ran an ad thanking Meijer de Lieme for providing ground beef and liverwurst free of charge to 'members who were partially or entirely unemployed'.
The mayor of Haaksbergen requested that Meijer de Lieme, a butcher residing in Haaksbergen, be located detained and brought to trial. He was suspected of having changed his place of residence without obtaining the required authorization. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding.
Meijer de Lieme, his wife and his son Jozeph went into hiding in a cabin in the Assink forest. Meyer and his wife were found there and picked up. Their son was not with them but reported to the authorities to avoid being separated from his parents.
//Algemeen Politieblad, nr 36, 10 September 1942, 1027, notice 1901;
R. Geritz-Koster and L. Karseboom, Dorp in de mediene. De geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Haaksbergen (Zutphen 1999) 39, 94-95, 163//
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