A few months after the start of the German occupation, the local administration of Enschede was ordered to compile a list of all Jewish businesses. This Verzeichnis sämtlicher jüdischer Unternehmungen von Enschede, 24 August 1940, listed fourteen businesses by the name De Leeuw. One was a tradesman, two were wholesale businesses 'in meat and bacon'.... and eleven were butcher stores.
One of these was the store of Abraham de Leeuw and his wife Zelma at Beltstraat 69a, a second was that of his relative Herman de Leeuw (1887-1951) and his wife Julia de Leeuw-Cohen at Hoogstraat 14. Abraham, Herman and Arnold de Leeuw (Butcher in Almelo, 1886-1944) were cousins.
City archives Enschede, C1000-1052
