Benjamin Levitus was the sixth child of Heiman Levitus and Esther Kosses. At age 10, he moved with his family to Amsterdam, where he met Klaartje Waas, the daughter of Leman Waas and Rachel Nebbig. They married in 1915. On 21 September 1916 their daughter Rachel was born.
Klaartje Waas died in 1924. Benjamin Levitus remarried Rachel Appelboom, daughter of Samuel Appelboom and Margaretha Spijer, o…