Levie Frank, born 23 April 1867 in Heenvliet, was a son of Nathan Abraham Frank and Jeannette Oppenheimer. He married in Amsterdam on 16 June 1898 to Henderina Cohen, who was born in Leeuwarden on 23 April 1867 as a daughter of Jacob Cohen and Klaasje Feitsma. The couple had six children, namely Nathan, Jacob, Salomon, Kaatje, Jeanette and Hartog.
Their son Salomon passed away in Rotterdam at the age of 22 on 8 May 1924 and he was interred there in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad. All other sons and daughters were killed during the Shoah, together with their families. Levie’s wife Henderina Cohen however passed away already on 2 April 1926 in Rotterdam and she was interred too in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad.
Levie (Levij) Frank earned his living with more than one profession: he was a house painter, painter of cloth and in his latest trade he worked as a advertisement artist. His parents often moved in the Netherlands. So Levie was born in Heenvliet, but his brother Salomon in Goes and his brother Bernard, for example, in Breda. Levie Frank himself came from Doesburg to Rotterdam in 1892 and his wife Henderina Cohen was registered in the Population Register on 25 June 1898, when she arrived in Rotterdam after her marriage in Amsterdam.
Untill his marriage, Levie Frank lived at Oppert 18, located near the St. Laurens-church in Rotterdam and also in the 1e Pijnakkerstraat 105a. With his wife Henderina he lived at Schiebroekseweg 19a, where she passed away in 1926. Since then, the widowed Levie Frank lived at different addresses in Rotterdam, usually lodgings with one of his children.
Among others, Levie lived in per 1 February 1930 with his eldest son Nathan in the Hugo Molenaarstraat 6a; per 10 October 1933 he lodged with his son-in-law Jacob Hornman, who was married to his daughter Kaatje at Schieweg 205b and on 9 February 1937 he went living in with his son Jacob and his family in the Buitenhofstraat 3b. His latest known address in Rotterdam was in the Vliesridderstraat 3b, located between Statenweg and Walenburgerweg in Rotterdam-North.
In October 1942, Levie Frank was taken from Rotterdam to Westerbork and on 12 October put on transport to Auschwitz. There, on arrival on 15 October 1942, he was immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources including the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Levie Frank; website wiewaswie.nl/wedding Levie Frank-Henderina Cohen; website hetstenenarchief.nl/ graves of Salomon Frank and Henderina Frank-Cohen and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Levie Frank.