Sassenstraat 45 A

With this stumbling stone we commemorate Levie de Leeuwe. He was 48 years old when he died on an unknown date between the beginning of March and the end of July 1944 somewhere in Central Europe. Levie was married to the non-Jewish Trijntje Diana de Groot. She survived the war, as did her daughter. **

Levie de Leeuwe was born in Zwolle on May 12, 1896. His parents were Jacques de Leeuwe (1855 -1930) and Naatje Keizer (1861- Westerbork June 16, 1943). Levie's mother had moved to Amsterdam after her husband died.

On October 11, 1921, Levie married the Reformed Trijntje Diana de Groot in Zwolle. She was born in Meppel on November 15, 1893 as the daughter of Hendrik Jan de Groot and Egbertdina Johanna Naatje ten Zweege. Trijntje survived the war and died in Zwolle in 1970. When she married Levie, Trijntje was the mother of a daughter, Egberdina Johanna Henderika. The girl was born on June 4, 1915 in the University Hospital in Groningen. Levie adopted her as a daughter when he married Trijntje. Egberdina later worked as a nurse in Deventer and as an office clerk at the Regional Employment Office in Zwolle. She also survived the war.

In 1921, Levie's profession was a coachman. Later he made a living as a trader in scrap iron.
Because of his marriage he was - in German terminology - a mixed married Jew. Mixed married Jewish people from Zwolle were allowed to live here after the last deportations of April 8-9, 1943. They were affected by all kinds of discriminatory measures, but were exempt from deportation. During the national April-May strike in 1943, Levie was reported to the Zwolle police. He was talking to a group of people on the street, thereby breaking the prohibition on gathering. That led to the accusation that he had incited people to strike. He therefore went into hiding with his brother-in-law in Hilversum, but was arrested there on May 20, 1943 by two police officers from Zwolle.

On June 4, 1943 he arrived as a criminal case in the transit camp Westerbork. His brother-in-law in Hilversum was punished with a seven-month concentration camp in Vught. In Westerbork, Levie has unsuccessfully appealed for his status of mixed-married Jew to at least escape deportation. He was finally deported on March 3, 1944 with transport number 89 from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The transport counted 732 people. Of them, 179 men and 76 women were forced laborers admitted to the camp. Among them also Levie. The other 477 people were killed immediately upon arrival in the gas chambers.

Levie was killed somewhere in Central Europe between March 1944 and July 1944. After the war, his date of death was administratively determined by the Minister of Justice on July 31, 1944.
No photos have been found of Levie de Leeuwe. We know little about his daily life. He is no exception to that. Many other Jewish people from Zwolle have also been wiped off the face of the earth without leaving many traces of them.

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