Levi Heiman Maas was a son of Eduard Maas en Sara Schnitzler and was born 28 February 1923 in Rotterdam. He then lived in with his parents with “Van Hees” at Binnenweg 15 2b. His parents however formally divorced on 5 March 1928 by verdict of the District Court of Rotterdam and Levi Heiman remained living with his mother.
When his mother remarried Jacob van Klaveren in 1933 in Rotterdam, Levi Heiman was no longer part of his mother’s family. His father lived in already up from September 1925 at Diergaardekade 7b in Rotterdam but Levi was not living with his father either after the divorce of his parents.
During the period after the divorce from 1928 till 1940, Levi Heiman, his father and also his mother lived all at different addresses in Rotterdam, where they had a “lodging”. The result was that Levi Heiman was placed per 7 December 1939 in the “Voormalige Rijksinrichting voor jongens” (a Former State institution for boys), named “De Kindersluis” at the Kralingse Plaslaan 108, where he might have been educated as a butcher’s apprentice. Thereafter, he came living in at the address Van Speijkstraat 62a in Rotterdam per 1 May 1940, his last known address in that city.
Between 19 and 22 October 1943 Levi Heiman was taken and registered in Westerbork and locked up in the penal barrack 67. Together with his fater, he was deported to Auschwitz on 25 January 1944 and on arrival there, selected for slave labour. Levie Heiman Maas eventually lost his life on 31 July 1944 in Auschwitz.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Levi Heiman Maas, Emanuel Maas and Sara Schnitzler; the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Eduard Maas and Jacob van Klaveren; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Levie Heiman Maas; the Wikipedia listing jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and some data of other researches of these families.