Betje Tokkie from Rotterdam was a daughter of Marcus Tokkie and Ester Blazer. On 28 August 1895 she married In Rotterdam the hague merchant Levie Scheffer, a son of Samuel Scheffer and Helena Sophia Frank. The couple had two sons, namelijk Samuel in 1896, who survived the war and Marcus in 1898, who was killed in the Shoah.
Betje Tokkie, her husband Levie and both her children Samuel and Marcus moved on 16 October 1903 from Rotterdam to Den Haag and lived at Kleine Bagijnestraat 7. On 7 July 1926 her husband Levie Scheffer was taken ill in the psychiatric hospital “St. Jans Gasthuis” in Delft where he passed away on 18 November 1936. His widow Betje moved with her children on 19 October 1926 to Kraaijenhoffstraat 46 2nd Floor and per 30 July 1936 to Zuylichemstraat 18 in Den Haag.
Her son Samuel, a leather goods manufacturer, married 10 April 1918 a non-Jewish woman, moved then to another address and had with her a daughter Betje in June 1918. The family survived the war. Her youngest son Marcus married 5 August 1925 Hendrika van Coeverden from Amsterdam; they lived at Hoefkade 293 in Den Haag. Marcus and Hendrika were killed in the Shoah.
Eventually Betje moved again to Rotterdam. On her registration card of the Jewish Council was her last known address taken down as Joost van Geelstraat 31a in Rotterdam. On 15 October 1942 she was registered in Camp Westerbork and on 23 October deported to Auschwitz, where she was killed immediately upon arrival there on 26 October 1942.
City Archive of Rotterdam, marriage of Levie Scheffer and Betje Tokkie; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Levie Scheffer and Samuel Scheffer; Archive of Delft, certificate of death of Levi Scheffer, made out by the municipality of Delft on 18 November 1936, nr. 492 and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Betje Scheffer-Tokkie.