Levie Cohen was a son of the butcher Heijman Cohen and Mietje Kornalijnslijper. He was born on 7 June 1880 in Amsterdam. His father, who was born 12 August 1858 in Hoorn, passed away in Amsterdam on 21 November 1925 and his mother, born in Amsterdam on 3 June 1850, died there on 7 July 1936. Both were interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg.
Levie was born into a family of in total eight chi…