Abraham Levie, the youngest son of Tanchum (Theodor) Levie from Groningen and Hannah Ricardo Rocamora from Hamburg, was born in Hamburg on 9 November 1887. He had two brothers, Jon and Iwan and two sisters, Sarah and Lea who were all born in Hamburg. The oldest sister Sarah died however at the age of 50 in Hilversum in 1930.
Abraham Levie was a merchant in packaging articles. He married Hilde Goldschmidt, a daughter of Nathan Goldschmidt (known as Louis) and Johanna Mayer, on 5 November 1922 in Hamburg. Hilde's sister, Hertha, was married to Jon, Abraham Levie's brother.
From Hamburg, Abraham and Hilde moved to Berlin, district Zehlendorf, where their son Hans Joachim Tanchum was born on 17 March 1925. It is not known when the Levie family moved from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main, but on 31 March 1935 Abraham, Hilde and Hans Joachim Tanchum Levie came from Frankfurt to Amsterdam and were registered there at Prinsengracht 470, where a boarding house was run by the wife of Carl Joseph Krüger, Charlotte Wilhelmina Lewandrowsky.
Not long after, on 4 November 1935 they moved to Marnixstraat 396, where they lived in with Cornelis de Graaf and 2 weeks later to Looiersgracht 26 III. Mid-May 1937 to Nieuwe Prinsengracht 116 ground floor and at the end of May 1938 to Montelbaanstraat 7 1st floor. On 6 May 1940 they left Amsterdam and settled in Naarden at Van Lijndenlaan 25, after which they moved again in 1942 to Heemskerklaan 4 in Naarden. However, due to the German decree, which forced Jews to move to Amsterdam, the family ended up there shortly afterwards at the Onbekende Gracht no.5.
There the Levie family was arrested on 16 April 1943 and carried off to the Vugt concentration camp. The following month, on 20 May 1943 their son Hans was sent to “Oud Leusden” labor camp and deported to Auschwitz on 15 November 1943. On 24 May 1943, Abraham Levie and his wife Hilde were sent from Vught to Westerbork, where they spent the night in barrack 60 but the next day, on 25 May 1943, were deported to Sobibor in a transport of more than 2800 victims. After arrival, on 28 May 1943, all, including Abraham Levie and Hilde Levie-Goldschmidt, were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Sobibor.
Sources including the Amsterdam City Archives, family registration cards Abraham Levie (1887), archive cards Abraham Levie, Hans Joachim Levie and Hilde Goldschmidt;); various residence cards Amsterdam; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Levie, Hilde Levie-Goldschmidt and Hans Joachim Tanchum Levie; website ITS Arolson/Jewish Council registration cards of Abraham Levie, Hilde Levie-Goldschmidt and Hans Joachim Tanchum Levie, camp cards Vught of Abraham Levie, Hilde Levie-Goldschmidt and Hans Joachim Tanchum Levie and Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/transport 25 May 1943.