Margaretha Sophia Levie, also known as Marga, got married to Louis Geleerd during the war.
A good friend of hers recalls that Marga did not initially believe she was in danger when the deportations began. She thought she would be set to work in the Polish tin mines, and refused to go into hiding with her husband. To delay her deportation, however, Margaretha did take a job as a telephonist and typist for the Jewish Council in The Hague.
After Marga and her husband had been transported to Westerbork, the same friend, who worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, managed to get her assigned to a job at the camp’s distribution service. From Westerbork, Marga wrote her friend a letter that makes it clear that she and her husband realized they would not be returning home. She asked her friend to name her daughter after her, if she had one.
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For additional information see:
R. de Leeuw van Weenen-van der Hoek, //Een kille in de mediene. Joods leven in Zuidland (Zuidland 1994) 158.
This person is commemorated on a memorial in Zeist. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.