Biography

About Mina Delmonte

Mina Delmonte, boardinghouse keeper, was a daughter of Emanuel Delmonte and Betje Mendels. She married Leon Levie on 28 July in Amsterdam, a son of Joseph Levie and Rika Hoogstraal. Mina and Leon had two children: Joseph Emanuel and Rika. They have been killed - together with their parents - on 4 July 1943 in Sobibor.

Mina had three other brothers: Jacob, who was married in 1941, Salomon, who was unmarried and Abraham, who was placed on 27 September 1910 as fosterson in the family of Emanuel Mendels and his wife in Wolvega, a brother of her mother. Mina's father passed away already in 1918 but Jacob and his family, Salomon and mother Betje Mendels-Delmonte have been killed in the Shoah. Her brother Abraham ended his life in Amsterdam by committing suicide on 15 May 1940.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Betje Mendels and Leon Levie.