Levie de Wit was the eldest son of Philip de Wit and Aaltje Tammerijn. He was born on 1 July 1891 in Rotterdam. On 13 August, when he was 22 years old, he married in Rotterdam the 22-year old Grietje de Roode, a daughter of Abraham de Roode and Johanna d’Ancona; Grietje was born on 13 December 1890 in Rotterdam. The couple had four children, namely Philip in 1914, Johanna in 1915, Abraham in 1917 and Hartog in 1926.
After being married in 1913, Levie earned his living as a bankholder of a Bank of Loan at Rotterdam, till 1929, when Levie, his wife and four children moved to Scheveningen on 30 March 1929, where they lived in the Bosschestraat 107, located parallel to the Harstenhoekweg. Before their removal, the family lived at various house numbers in the Oranjeboomstraat of Rotterdam, in the Goudsche Wagenstraat, the Hoogstraat, the Prins Hendrikkade, the Goudscheweg and the Allard Piersonstraat.
Since 30 March 1929, Levie changed his job and became an iron dealer and was as such registered in Den Haag. However, they have lived only shortly in the Bosschstraat in Scheveningen because already on 14 November 1929, the family moved back to Rotterdam, where they came to live then in the Prins Hendrikstraat 7, located at the Noorder Eiland.
The registration cards from the file cabinet of the Jewish Council of Grietje de Wit-de Roode and two of their four children, Philip and Hartog, show that during the mandatory registration of all Jews of the Netherlands in 1941, they lived at Oranjeboomstraat 89a. A note at their cards, made after the war, indicates that they have survived the Holocaust, and that – as from a listing from Eindhoven – they would live in the Rotterdam Oranjeboomstraat again, however now at house number 65.
From their four children, Johanna and Abraham have lost their lives in the Holocaust. Johanna with her husband and little daughter in Auschwitz and Abraham with his daughter also in Auschwitz. His wife passed in 1941 in Rotterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad.
A note on the Jewish Council registration card of Levie de Wit made it clear that he has been murdered in Mauthausen on 10 July 1942.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Philip de Wit and Levie de Wit; the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Levie de Wit; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie de Wit, Grietje de Wit-de Roode, Philip de Wit, Johanna van der Stam-de Wit, Abraham de Wit and Hartog de Wit; the death certificate made out in Rotterdam on 24 March 1948, nr. 156 for Levie de Wit and an addition of a visitor of the website.