David and Sophia de Leeuw pose outside their butcher shop in Venlo, The Netherlands.
Overview
- Caption
- David and Sophia de Leeuw pose outside their butcher shop in Venlo, The Netherlands.
- Date
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Before 1933
- Locale
- Venlo, [Limburg] The Netherlands
- Variant Locale
- Venloo
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Meier de Leeuw
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Meier de Leeuw
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Meier Abraham de Leeuw is the son of David Abraham de Leeuw and Sophia Frankenhuis. He was born on November 5, 1930, in Venlo, The Netherlands where his father worked as a butcher. He has one older sister, Judith Wilhelmina de Leeuw. Starting in 1933 the family lived in Deventer though they spent a lot of time with Sophia's family in Nijmegen. On September 2, 1942 the family went "under water" the term given for going into hiding. They were assisted by the undeground who supplied ration cards and money. After once being discovered by the Gestapo, they had to find a new hiding place. The family managed to remain hidden until Deventer's liberation on April 10, 1945. Although Meier's immediate family survived, much of his extended family, including three grandparents, perished in Auschwitz.
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