Kurt Levi Callo was an office clerk. He was unmarried. He carried out work for the resistance, including lending a hand to Jews, distributing illegal printed matter and acting as part of the 'heavies team'. On 9 March 1945, he was picked up on the Meent in Rotterdam and imprisoned in the police office at the Haagsche Veer. In reprisal for an attack on a German police officer, Kurt Levi Callo was executed at the Hofplein in Rotterdam on 12 March 1945.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw;
B. Braber, Zelfs als wij zullen verliezen. Joden in verzet en illegaliteit in Nederland 1940-1945 (Amsterdam, 1990) 144-145
Kurt Levi Callo was the commander of a section of the National Strong-arm Gang (LKP) assigned to retake the Maastunnel in 1944 to aid the allied forces. He lies buried on the field of honour on the cemetery in Crooswijk. The Kurt Callostraat in Rotterdam is named after him.
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