Meijer Philip Heijman, son of Levi Heijman and Evalina van Praag, was unmarried. According information from the municipality of Gendringen in 1953, Meijer Philip moved on 10 February 1940 from Gendringen to Badhuisweg 58 in Apeldoorn, At the same date as his mother Evalina Heijman-van Praag and his sister Mina. Also an unmarried sister of his in 1938 deceased father Levi Heijman lived in in the family, namely Mina Heijman, who was born in 1873. Meijer Philip has had a little brother Zacharias, who died in childhood in 1910, aged 2 years. Only his sister Schoontje has survived the Holocaust.
The depicted photograph, where Meijer Philip is to see in militairy uniform, has been made presumably in the early years of 1940. Per 1 July 1942, he was employed at the Apeldoornse Bosch, where he worked at the Technical Management for the Youth Care. According his record of the archive of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, he was a tailor by trade.
Meijer Philip was registered in transit camp Westerbork on 22 October 1942, and has been deported “Eastwards” already one day later, on 23 October 1942. Eventually he has lost his life somewhere in Mid Europe on 31 March 1944.
Municipality of Gendringen, informative letter of the Registrar dated 20 February 1953; Municipal Archive of Apeldoorn, list of personnel of the Apeldoornse Bosch and the filce cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, record of Meijer Philip Heijman.