Rena Dina Levy

Abraham Ludwig Levy was born 18 June 1871 in Oberstityko in Poland as son of Max Levy and Rahel Tawrogi. He married 8 July 1903 in the Polish village of Szamocin Sophie Berg born there on 14 March 1883, a daughter of ? Berg and Nathalie Lina. The Levy couple left Poland for Hamburg in Germany, where both their children were born: Heinz in 1904 and Rena Dina in 1910.

The family arrived from Hannove…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 55622) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Sunday 20 June 1943: in the southern and eastern part of Amsterdam a big raid has taken place on the last remaining Jews in the city. Germans as well as the Amsterdam police blocked all streets, went into houses to bring the Jews to the gathering places.

At this raid, a large part of the remaining Jews of Amsterdam-East and South were made “ready to march” (marschfertig). The Germans boasted about…