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Iwan Levie * 1884

Bismarckstraße 104 (Eimsbüttel, Hoheluft-West)

HIER WOHNTE
IWAN LEVIE
JG. 1884
FLUCHT 1938
HOLLAND
INTERNIERT
DEPORTIERT 1942
ERMORDET IN
AUSCHWITZ

Iwan Levie, born on 6.9.1884 in Hamburg, 1939 fled to the Netherlands, camp Westerbork, on 19.10.1942 deported from there to Auschwitz and murdered on 22.10.1942

Bismarckstraße 104

Iwan Levie, a cousin of Julius Levie, lived unmarried as a merchant in Hamburg. His parents were the cigar manufacturer Theodor (Tanchum) and Hannah Levie, née Ricardo-Rocamora from Groningen. Iwan had a brother Jon, six years older, and a sister Lea, two years younger. In the 1880s, the Levie family lived in changing apartments in St. Pauli near the slaughterhouse, e.g. in Marktstraße and in the no longer existing Asylstraße 1.

The siblings had Dutch citizenship and tried to escape Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Netherlands. They did not succeed. All three were deported to Auschwitz. There is a Stolperstein for Lea at Jungfrauenthal 28 and for Jon at Papenhuder Straße 22.

In the 1919 address book, Iwan Levie is registered with the addition "formerly techn. article Fabrikation". In the 1920s he then ran a wholesale business for ready-made clothing at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 82.
He lived for a long time at Isestraße 29. His widowed mother Hannah Levie also lived with him and for a time his sister Lea, who was a home economics teacher and later, when she presumably lost her job due to persecution, ran a boarding house at Klosterallee 47 and then on the second floor of the house at Brahmsallee 15. The mother died in May 1928.

From 1932, the telephone directory for Iwan Levie gives the address Fruchtallee 122 b, where he lived and had his office. From the mid-1930s he lived at Bismarckstraße 104, where a Stolperstein is laid for him.

At the end of 1938 he operated his emigration to the Netherlands and lived temporarily at Hofweg 45/III. Since he was a Dutchman, it was possible for him to take along removal goods after they had been checked by customs. Most of his belongings were loaded at the end of December, but some of them remained behind and could only be made up for with a great deal of bureaucratic effort. An investigation report of the customs investigation office dated December 19, 1938, stated: "The removal goods of the Jew Ivan Levie, Hamburg, Bismarckstraße 104, I have taken possession of on 16. ds. Mts. in the presence of the cousin Julius Levie, Hamburg, Gneisenaustr. 5. The audit did not lead to any objections, ..."

The foreign exchange office at the Chief Finance President allowed him to export an amount of 3,500 Reichsmark to establish a new existence. On November 22, 1938, Iwan Lewie was registered as a resident of the city of Amsterdam. He also tried to earn a living in the Netherlands as a representative of men's clothing. In Amsterdam he lived like his aunt Helena and his cousin Julius Levie (see there) in Valkenburgerstraat, but in a different house, number 8 on the second floor.

It is not known when he was sent to the Westerbork camp. He was deported to Auschwitz on October 19, 1942, and murdered there on October 22.

His sister Lea, who escaped to the Netherlands in mid-1939, had been in Westerbork since October 14, 1942, and was deported to Auschwitz together with her brother.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Susanne Lohmeyer

Quellen: 1;2 (FVg 5515); 4; 5; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, 8093 + 281/1928; StaH 332-5, 2132 + 4874/1886; StaH 332-5, 2082 + 4181/1884; StaH 332-5, 1935 + 4137/1878; www.joodsmonument.nl; Auskunft Jose Martin, Joodse Monument, v. 23.1.2012; HAB II 1919, 1928, 1937; HAB IV 1937; Carmen Smiatacz, Stolpersteine in Hamburg-Barmbek, S. 126f.