Levie Velleman was born in Sloten on 19 May 1867 as a son of Nathan Velleman and Roosje Bak. He married Rebecca Italiaander in Amsterdam on 25 November 1896; she was a daughter of Simon Italiaander en Betje Isaac Luza and was born on 23 June 1867.
The Velleman couple had six children, namely Roosje, Betje, Henriette, Simon, Grietje and Nathan. During the Shoah, Roosje, Betje and Henriette and their families were murdered in Sobibor; Simon and Nathan died in Amsterdam in childhood, respectively 6 and 1 year old and Grietje passed away at the age of 19 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Levie Velleman peddled with vegetables but dealt also in old clothing. In November 1925 Levie moved with his family to Haarlemmermeer, where he lived at Nieuwe Meerdijk 41. Meantime Roosje had left her parental home already in 1917 when she married Maurits Cohen. Betje married only in 1936 Benjamin van Geldere, moved with her parents to Haarlemmermeer and returned after 1936, back to the city. Henriette also moved with her parents, but married in 1929 Simon Bierman and returned then again to Amsterdam.
An unmarried brother of Rebecca, Salomon Italiaander, an occasional, porter and peddler, who was born on 7 February 1871, came living in with Levie Velleman and his family, when they moved to Haarlemmermeer in 1925. And when Levie and Rebecca went back to Amsterdam in 1931, Salomon Italiaander joined them.
Levie, Rebecca and his brother-in-law Salomon Italiaander, returned from Haarlemmermeer in Amsterdam in October 1931 and went living in the Christiaan de Wetstraat 24 ground floor but in September 1934, they moved to the President Brandstraat 11 ground floor, which would also turn out to be their last known address in the Netherlands.
On 8 November 1942, Levie Velleman, his wife Rebecca Italiaander and in-law Salomon Italiaander were registered in Westerbork and on 10 November from there, put on transport to Auschwitz. That transport contained 758 deportees of whom, during a stop at Kozel, 180 men between 15 and 50 had to leave the train to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labour camps in Upper-Silesia.
But due to their age, which was far beyond 50 years, Levie, Rebecca and her brother Salomon were transported onwards to Auschwitz and upon arrival there on 13 November 1942, murderd in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Levie Velleman (1867) and Salomon Italiaander (1871), closed family registration cards and peoples registry of Simon Italiaander (1831), archive cards Levie Velleman, Rebecca Italiaander and Salomon Italiaander; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie Velleman, Rebecca Italiaander and Salomon Italiaander and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.