Biography

About Levie and Elias Denneboom

Levie (born 12 October 1929) and Elias Denneboom (born 8 December 1931) were children of Sara Gans and Hijman Joel Denneboom. Their parents however divorced in 1933 and their father remarried in 1935 and eventually has survived the Holocaust. After her divorce their mother Sara moved to Czaar Peterstraat In Amsterdam. There she lived together with the widower Hendrik Brameijer, from whom she had a child, named Mijntje, born 5 January 1937. Levie and Elias' halfsister has been legalized by her father Hendrik and received the family name of Brameijer.

In the end however, Levie and Elias Denneboom and their mother Sara Gans and their half-sister Mijntje too, have been killed in Auschwitz on 22 May 1944.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of  Sara Gans, Levie Denneboom, Elias Denneboom and Mijntje Brameijer.