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Joël Levie

Joël Levie was the grandfather of Hello Silberberg, Anne Frank's friend.

Person

  • Joël Levie
  • Born on: Nov. 7, 1877
  • Born in: Deventer, Nederland
  • Died on: March 2, 1954
  • Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Joël Levie was the grandfather of Hello Silberberg,[1] a friend of Anne Frank.[2] 

Levie was born a Dutchman, but moved with his parents to Germany at a very young age. He had himself naturalised as a German in 1921.

He married Sarah Salm on 26 July 1901 in Arnhem.[2] After Hitler's rise to power, he returned to the Netherlands and during the occupation he and his wife had to go into hiding. In 1949, he became a Dutch citizen again.[3]

Source personal data.[2] Address: Zuider Amstellaan 191 II, Amsterdam.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as (one of the) grandparents. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 13 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty,  London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J. Levie.
  3. ^ Handelingen Tweede Kamer 1948-1949. Kamerstuknummer 1269, ondernummer 3.
  4. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten, inv. nr. 303: Woningkaart Rooseveltlaan 191.