Rosetta Victoria Levitus was the seventh child of Heiman Levitus and Esther Kosses. Six months after she was born, the family moved from Bellingwolde to Winschoten and from there to Amsterdam (in 1903), where they lived on the Joden Houttuinen.
On 30 April 1913 Rosetta Victoria Levitus married Salomon Scheffer, born in Amsterdam on 4 August 1891 as the son of Barend Scheffer and Betje Lelie. The couple lived first at 183 Valkenburgerstraat in Amsterdam and from 1914 at 8 Nieuwe Grachtje in Amsterdam.
The couple had eight children: Betsie, Heiman Nathan, Esther (born in 1918; she lived for only a few months), Grietje, Esther, Barend and two other children who survived the war.
Salomon Scheffer became seriously ill in 1925; he died on 28 October 1930.
On Saturday, 3 October 1942, Rosetta Victoria Levitus was removed from her home and deported to Auschwitz via Westerbork. Two of her children survived the war.
Joods Historisch Museum, Documentenverzameling, inv.nr 10289, ordner II
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