Betje van Bergen-de Levie was a daughter of Gompel de Levie and Eva Leman. She was the third child in a family of six children. In October 1942 Betje de Levie traveled to Ommen to celebrate Sukkot with her parents. At night on 3 Oktober she was arrested, presumably because she didn't have the correct traveldocuments with her. Betje van Bergen-de Levie was sent to Westerbork. Her parents and two brothers, Jacob and Hartog were also carried of. In Westerbork, Betje van Bergen-de Levie was reunited with her son Harry Philippus van Bergen. Together they were deported to Auschwitz. No familymember survived the war.
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Philip Hartog van Bergen en Betje de Levie married in 1935. On a picture taken on their weddingday, the couple stands in front of the synagoge in Ommen. This picture is the only known one on which the text above the entrance of the synagoge is readable. The picture is published in: G. Steen, Zo was het. Plaatsjes uit het Oude Ommen en zijn omgeving (Ommen 1979) 21.
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Additional information in Dutch can be found in:
W. Stappenbelt, Ommen onder kruis en kroon (Ommen 1995) and
J. Gelderen 'Bijdragen aan een discussie: de Joden in Ommen, in: Huisorgaan van de IJsselacademie (Kampen) vol. 18, nr.2.