Nolensstraat 8b

Joseph Manheim was born on February 2, 1878 in Amsterdam as the son of Raphael Manheim and Chrisje van Bever. He still had 2 sisters and 2 brothers who died after a few months. He married Debora Margaretha Manheim in Alkmaar in October 1909. Later she moved to Rotterdam and went to live on Hoogstraat 163a, where Joseph had a furniture store De Witte Zwanen. He specialized in child lediests. They had two children: Rudolf (July 26, 1910) and Hartog (June 5, 1914). At the bombing of the city on May 14, 1940, the furniture store and their home was destroyed. The family managed to bring itself safety. Shortly thereafter, Joseph moved with his wife to Nolensstraat 8b in the new Blijdorp district. There he lived until 1942. On October 10, 1942, he and his wife were deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz where they were murdered on October 15.

Their son Rudolf married Catharina Juliana Broek and had a son together in 1939. She lived at the Kerstant van den Bergelaan 67 in Hillegersberg. Rudolf managed to go into hiding with his family with Jaan Jiskoot, who was with her brother Kees at the LO/LKP Barendrecht. However, Rudolf was betrayed and arrested less than two weeks later and died on March 31, 1944 in Silesia. His wife Catharina and their son were also arrested and were locked up in the police station on the Haagseveer in Rotterdam. There, Catharina and her son managed to escape by running out of the building at an unseen moment. She managed to stay over and went into hiding again. She managed to let her son go into hiding with a Rotterdam family. She herself went into herself in Zutphen. They were later reunited. After the war in 1946, Catharina remarried the resistanceman Johan Louis Klein, who helped the family go into hiding. She died on June 9, 1994 at the age of 83 in Wassenaar.

Son Hartog married the Czech nurse Chana Levitus in Zutphen in 1939. Chana went to the Zionist pioneer training program (Hachshara) in Deventer, the Netherlands two years earlier in 1937, where she attended the nursing school. In 1939 she left with her husband Hartog for Palestine and later she was one of the founders of Kvutsat Huliot, now Kibbutz Sde Nehemiah. Her name was Chana Bekkers later. Hartog also called Harry continued to live in Israel and died somewhere in the late 90s and early 2000 at the age of 90.

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