Hartog Levie (Harrie) van Leeuwen was married, but his wife died in 1939 when their child was barely one year old. Harrie was the director of the company H.L. van Leeuwen N.V. On 9 August 1941 the Germans forced him to abandon his business. Harrie van Leeuwen tried to escape by travelling south, but he was arrested just before the Belgian border and taken to Den Bosch. Later he was arrested together with his child in Breda. Thanks to the efforts of a representative of the Jewish Council in that city, the child’s maternal grandfather was able to remove it to safety. When Harrie’s in-laws came to bid him farewell at Den Bosch railway station, he was optimistic and expected to be back in a few months’ time.
Jack Didden, De laatste Joden in Waalwijk, in: M. van Loon e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis van de joden in Waalwijk 1690-1945 (Waalwijk, 1990) 80-109
In 1940 Hartog Levie van Leeuwen lived at the Koningsweg 62 in Den Bosch. He moved to Waalwijk on 10 September 1941.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 8141) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 7186/6516).