Pienas Jacob Levie was a son of Meijer Levie and Bertha Elekan. He married his cousin Wilhelmina Levie on 10 May 1917. Wilhelmina (known as Mina) kept a kosher kitchen. The couple had a son Meijer and a daughter Sophia Bertha. The daughter attended the secondary modern in Hellevoetsluis. In 1941 she had to leave this school and rode the tram to Rotterdam every day to attend the Jewish secondary modern in Rotterdam.
Pienas Jacob Levie had various occupations, including merchant and customs officer in Roosendaal. In 1917 he was a state official in Naaldwijk. He also trained others to become tax clerks. In 1922 he became a buyer for the Albert Heijn supermarket chain and moved with his family from Zuidland to Elburg. The next year the family returned to Zuidland and moved back into their old home at 2 Ring.
In 1924 Pienas Levie purchased a small Ford registration number 38443. In 1931, 1935 and 1939, he stood in the municipal elections as the liberal candidate. In 1935 he received three votes.
In 1942 he was listed as missing by the mayor of Zuidland, who requested on behalf of the Sicherheitspolizei in Rotterdam that Pienas Levie, residing at 2 Ring (later at 496 Gooldijk) in Zuidland, be located, detained and brought to trial at the Sicherheitspolizei office at 226 Heemraadsingel in Rotterdam. He was suspected of having changed his place of residence without the required authorization. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding.
//Algemeen Politieblad, no. 46, 19 November 1942, 1299, notice 2806;
R. de Leeuw van Weenen-van der Hoek, Een kille in de mediene. Joods leven in Zuidland (Zuidland, 1994) 54, 159-161//
In addition, a Jokos file (number 10304) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.