Julie Leffmann, who was born on 6 December 1884 in Düsseldorf, was the 2nd spouse of Maijer Markus Biedermann. She married him on 20 March 1923 in Düsseldorf. The 1st wife of Maijer Markus Biedermann was Justine Kann, born on 9 March 1855 in Dorrebach Germany, but who passed away on 28 May 1920 in Amsterdam. She was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
From the 1st wedlock of Julie’s spouse Maijer Markus Biedermann, nine children were born, namely Isaac on 17 August 1879, Regina on 1 Juli 1881, Jules on 9 May 1883, Bertha on 21 January 1886, Thérèse on 18 March 1888, Karel on 27 May 1890, Ernestina in June 1892, Alexander on 11 January 1895 and on 2 February 1896 a stillborn son was born. Of these children, only Ernestina and Alexander died in childhood. All others with their families have been killed during the Shoah.
Julie Biedermann-Leffmann was registered in the Register of Foreigners in Amsterdam on 20 November 1919, married in 1923 and was widowed since early April 1929; her spouse Maijer Markus Biedermann, to whom she was only married for six years, passed away in Amsterdam on 5 April 1929 and he was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen, where also his first wife was buried.
After the passing of her husband, Julie lived in the Maasstraat 50 in Amsterdam, where she had room with the Van der Meulen family. Later, on 9 January 1936 she moved to Niersstraat 51 2nd floor in Amsterdam where she found room with the Rosenzweig family. She has provided for herself as an office clerk. On 14 August 1942 Julie Biedermann-Leffmann was taken and carried off from her residential address to Westerbork and on 24 August put on transport to Auschwitz. After arrival there on 27 August 1942, she was immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Maijer Markus Biedermann and of Julie Leffmann; the Register of Foreigners in Amsterdam/Julie Leffmann; archive card of Julie Leffmann; website Open Archieven/Biedermann; website wiewaswie.nl/Biedermann; website het stenen archief.nl/grave of Maijer Markus Biedermann and of Justine Biedermann-Kann; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Julie Biedermann-Leffmann and the certificate of death, made out in Amsterdam for Julie Biedermann-Leffmann from A-register 82, folio 70- deed nr. 410 dated 19 July 1950.