Salomon Siegfried Lievendag
Salomon Lievendag was a travelling companion of Otto Frank during the repatriation from Auschwitz.
Person
Siegfried Lievendag married Johanna Heinemann in Hamburg in 1920. She died in 1927, and he went on to marry his cousin Ester Lievendag in 1931, also in Hamburg.[1] She had a daughter from her first marriage: Hannelore Cahn.[2] Lievendag had Dutch nationality and the family moved to Amsterdam in September 1938.[3] Lievendag was the manager of a clothing store there, and his wife was a dentist.
As an administrative employee of the Arbeitseinsatz, Lievendag had a Sperre, but ultimately he and his wife ended up in Camp Vught on 27 January 1943, from where he was transferred to Westerbork on 20 March 1944 and transported to Auschwitz on 23 March 1944.[4] His wife left with the last transport of about 500 Jewish men, women and children from the Philips-Kommando on the night of 2 to 3 June 1944, directly to Auschwitz.[5]
Lievendag survived Auschwitz and made the same return journey as Otto Frank aboard the MS Monowai from Odessa to Marseille. Lievendag is mentioned a couple of times in Otto Frank's notebook, which he kept after being liberated from the camp. On 12 May 1945, his own birthday, Frank wrote: “Lievendag congratulated me”. On 23 May he wrote: “Lievendag's birthday”. On this day they happened to be passing Istanbul on the repatriation ship MS Monowai.[6]
From 1945 onwards, Frank continued to mark Lievendag's birthday in his diaries.[7] On 27 January 1946, one year after his liberation, he jotted down Lievendag's name, among others.[8] On 20 December 1947 he wrote next to his name ”J.I.”.[9] This suggests that Lievendag had been admitted to the Joodsche Invalide, the Jewish home for the disabled. On 13 February 1948 he wrote: “S. Lievendag †”, and on 17 February: “¼2 Funeral Lievendag”.[10] A photo was taken of Lievendag in the company of eleven others at some point between his return in 1945 and his death in early 1948. Among them were his wife Ester Lievendag-Lievendag, his step-daughter Hannelore Cahn and her husband Hans Eisinger, and Otto Frank.[11]
Hannelore Eisinger-Cahn was a prisoner and revue dancer in Camp Westerbork during the war. In 2008, Steffie van den Oord published a book and documentary about her entitled Westerbork Girl.[12]
Source personal data.[3] Addresses: Hamburg; Vechtstraat 23-II, Amsterdam (September 1938), Beethovenstraat 66-I (August 1940), Zuider Amstellaan 93hs (December 1945).[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Salomon Siegfried Lievendag. De familierelatie wordt gemeld in een e-mail van Vera Eisinger aan Gertjan Broek (Anne Frank Stichting), 23 december 2016.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Ester Lievendag (1899).
- a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Salomon Siegfried Lievendag.
- ^ Arolsen Archives – International Center on Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Administratie Kamp Vught: DocID: 382896 (SALOMON SIEGFRIED LIEVENDAG; Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130334201 (Salomon S LIEVENDAG)
- ^ Arolsen Archives – International Center on Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Administratie Kamp Vught: DocID: 382883 (ESTHER LIEVENDAG); Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130330504 (Esther LEIVENDAG LIEVENDAG)
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_040: Notitieboekje Otto Frank januari-3 juni 1945, notities 12 en 23 mei.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_002, 003 en 004: agenda’s Otto Frank, 1945 t/m 1947, telkens 23 mei.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_003: agenda Otto Frank, 27 januari 1946.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_004: agenda Otto Frank, 20, 24, 30 december 1947 en 1 december 1948.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg code OFA_005: agenda Otto Frank, 13 en 17 februari 1948.
- ^ Foto en namen in e-mail Vera Eisinger aan Gertjan Broek (AFS), 13 december 2016.
- ^ Steffie van den Oord, Westerbork girl, Amsterdam: Contact, 2008.