Biography

About Leentjen Weenen-Löwenstein

Leentjen Löwenstein was a natural and legalized daughter of Saartjen Löwenstein. She married in Amsterdam 2 November 1892 to Goedman Weenen, a son of Samuel Weenen and Fijtje Zante.
Leentjen Löwenstein passed away in Amsterdam on 6 September 1942 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen on 9 September 1942.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Goedman Weenen, website www.wiewaswie.nl, Akevoth/Mokum/Burial Permits and the Civil Registry with the Amsterdam certificate of death of Leentjen Löwenstein nr. 57.

Leentjen Weenen-Löwenstein drowned herself in the Ringvaart, near Transvaalkade, out of fear of what might happen to her. A former neighbour recalls that Leentje Weenen seldom went outside any more: 'It is incomprehensible that she found an opportunity to leave the house unnoticed and found her way to the water'. Leentjen Weenen-Löwenstein was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
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See also: NIOD, Records Joodse Raad, box 36d, letter dd. 9 September 1942