Levie Boeken, a bookbinder, married Sara van de Kar in 1935. They had three children: Deborah (1935), Eddy (1937) and in 1941 another child, who survived the war. Sara, Deborah and Eddy were murdered in Sobibor on 11 June 1943; the children had been taken away with the so-called children's transport from camp Vught. Deborah was seven, Eddy six. Levie was murdered in Sobibor on 9 July 1943. His sister Hendrika van de Montel-Boeken lived in the same house.