Sophia Zeehandelaar, daughter of Marcus Samson Zeehandelaar and Dina Noach, was married to Izak Lievendag, a son of Levie Lievendag and Betje Lievendag and lived at Boterweg 34 in Den Bosch. On 22 February 1940 their son Max Henri was born there.
31 July 1942, Sophia’s spouse Izak Lievendag was arrested and imprisoned at the “Polizei- und Untersuchungsgefängnis Lager Haaren” the former Great Semenary ‘s-Hertogenbosch which was confiscated by the Germans in 1941. Izak was transferred from there to Camp Amersfoort and deported to Mauthausen, where he was killed 16 November 1942.
Sophia and her little son were only arrested and imprisoned 28 November 1942 at Lager Haaren and both were sent to Camp Westerbork on 4 December, where Sophia’s son Max Henri - according notes on her registration card of the Jewish Council - happened to be “a doctors case”; On 11 December he is still in hospital in barack 5.
14 December Sophia received the message that her husband had “passed away” in Mauthausen and this news was confirmed by the Jewish Council at Den Bosch 18 December. 22 December Sophia stayed in barack 67 till she was deported with her son Max Henri on 23 February 1943 to Auschwitz, where both were killed immediately upon arrival there on 26 Februrary 1943.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Sophia Lievendag-Zeehandelaar, Max Henri Lievendag and Izak Lievendag; website Gedenkplaats Haaren, http://gedenkplaats-haaren.nl/gevangenen-gijzelaars/joden/.