Rachel Jakoba Levie was born in Oude Pekela on 19 December 1874 as daughter of Jakob Levie and Henriette Pinto. She married on 6 July 1902 in Groningen Benjamin Velleman, haberdasherer, born 29 December 1871 in Groningen, son of Jacob Benjamin Velleman and Klaartje Druijf. The couple had two daughters, namely Hester in 1903 and Klaartje in 1907.
The Velleman family moved from Groningen to Amsterdam on 15 April 1916, where they came living at Boerhaaveplein 18 2nd floor, where Benjamin Velleman passed away at the age of 54 on 11 April 1925. Daughter Klaartje was unmarried and it is not known which profession she had; archives showed she had “no profession”. Her sister was working as sales representative in corsages. Hester, who was married in 1924 to Salomon Rabbie, lived since then at other addresses in the city but they came living in again per 31 March 1935 with their in May 1925 born daughter Helena at Boerhaaveplein 18 2nd floor.
Klaartje lived there till 19 December 1938. Then she left for a short time to Heerlen. On 15 April 1939 she returned home, after which she and her mother left Boerhaaveplein in Amsterdam again on 8 July 1939, now for Valkenburg. In September 1939 mother and daughter returned to Amsterdam; Klaartje and her mother then lived shortly at Rijnstraat, Biesboschsraat and Roerstraat. Per 3 January 1940 they came living at Andreas Bonnstraat 6 1st stock.
On 20 March 1943, they were both taken from their last address in Amsterdam to Westerbork, where they ended up in barrack 62. On 6 April they were deported to Sobibor and on arrival there on 9 April 1943, both immediately murdered.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Klaartje Velleman, Hester Velleman and Rachel Jacoba Levie, family registration card of Salomon Rabbie, residence card Boerhaaveplein 18 II Amsterdam; website Open Archieven, marriage Velleman/Levie and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council. Registration cards of Klaartje Velleman en Rachel Jakoba Velleman-Levie.