Levie Prijs was born 7 April 1887 as son of Marcus Prijs and Mietje Gompers. He was unmarried, lived with his mother at Nieuwe Achtergracht 4 1st floor in Amsterdam and he earned his money as a cigar sorter. His father Marcus Prijs had died already on 23 August 1926 and he was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg two days later.
Levie’s sister, Judik survived the Holocaust but two brothers, Barend and Samuel, were killed during the Shoah, just like he himself. Levie had received a call for the so-called “provision of additional work in Germany – the “Arbeitseinsatz”. However research in the archives does not give a definitive answer whether Levie - when he was brought to Westerbork – arrived there as a result of the large-scale round-ups, held in the first days of October 1942, or – if Levie would have been employed there – as a result of the Germans’ liquidation of the Jewish Labour camps in the Netherlands.
Levie Prijs would have been put on transport to Auschwitz on 5 October 1942, which was also the first transport with a first group of the 10.000 Jewish forced labourers from the liquidated Jewish labour camps in the Netherlands. But Levie was put on hold and his deportation on 5 October was cancelled.
However, on 6 November still deportation to Auschwitz followed, where Levie Prijs on arrival there on 9 November 1942 was killed immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Mietje Gompers and Levie Prijs, family registration card of Marcus Prijs; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Levie Prijs and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.
Bio updated 31-3-2020