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Leyni / Leni (Golda Leah), survived the holocaust, hiding in a house of the van den Berg family, in the Velp (with other members of her family, siblings and others). Liberation, April 1945.
Leyni and her son, Simche (later Shimon) emigrated to Israel in 1948, after the war.. She remarried. She married Baruch (Bernard) Marcus,
Baruch and Lea(h) Markus, had a son: Itzak (Isaac) Markus, born 1949,
Itzchak Markus married Ruth Ateret Shani, they has at least 3 children. Living in Tel Aviv.
The son of Israel and Leah/Leyni, Simche/Shimon did not marry / have a family.
Golda Leah (Leyni/Leni) was born: 11th June 1908 in Tarnow, Poland. She died 11th December 1992 in Israel. and is buried at Holon Cemetery,, Tel Aviv with her second husband, Baruch (Bernard) Marcus, who died on 18 May 1988).
The van den Berg couple, who saved wife, Leni / Leyni and others, in their house during the holocaust, the Velp, the Netherlands. They were honoured by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations, in 1999.
The family who saved Israel's wife, Leyni: the van den Berg's, Liberation April 1945. (Leyni is sitting in the front right).
Here is the Yad Vashem 'story' and Honour:
https://righteous.yadvashem.org/?searchType=righteous_only&language=en&itemId=4038899&ind=NaN
(front left) Leyni (Golda Leah, wife of Israel), behind, her brother, Jack (Jacob); next to him is husband of Leyni's sister, Jeanette (Jochwet) and their baby, Eduard. Next to Leyni is her mother, Sabine Beder. 1928.
son, Simi, 1940
Son Simi, 1940..
son, Simi (prev. Siegmund, later Shimon), moved to Israel 1948 with mother, Leyni.
Simi is the son of Israel and Leah (Leyni) Loebl. As a baby, he was fostered (sheltered) by a righteous Dutch family, in the Velp. He survived, emigrated to Israel after the war, with his mother, Leyni (she survived hiding with 13 others, in a house in the Velp). This is Simche/Shimon's story.
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Person is in the National Database of Victims of Persecution