In the family of Levie Lievendag (1822-1908) and Hester Frankenhuis (1828-1892), eleven children were born besides also a stillborn daughter, among them Jacob, born 12 November 1864. The other children in this family were Salomon, Heijman, Hendrina, Roosje, Rosetta, Elisabeth, Karel, Abraham, Dina and Isak.
Heijman and Karel died as babies, they became not even one year old and his brother Isak died at the age of 3 in 1874. His brother Salomon and sisters Hendrina, Roosje and Elisabeth have died before the outbroke of the war. None of them were married.
Only Rosetta, Dina, Abraham and Jacob self died after 1940: His sister Rosetta has been killed in Sobibor on 16 April 1943. On 10 February 1942 his sister Dina died in Oldenzaal and also Abraham passed away in Oldenzaal 15 September 1941.
Jacob Lievendag was married to Bertha Elkus, who was born in 1869 in Denekamp as a daughter of Lefman Elkus and Sara Alexander. The wedding was in Denekamp on 31 October 1894. The couple had seven children, namely, Levie, Louis, Stella, Julia, Bertha, Roosje and Emma. Only Bertha and Emma have survived the Shoah. Levie died in 1895 one day after he was born; Louis passed away in November 1937, 41 years of age; Stella, who was married to Mozes Samuel, was killed in Sobibor 21 May 1943; Julia died at age 14 in 1915 in Oldenzaal and Roosje died in 1911, just four years old, in Oldenzaal too.
Jacob Lievendag, who lived at Poortstraat 6 in Oldenzaal with his wife Bertha Elkus, was registered in Westerbork 30 March 1943. Apparently Jacob, at the age of 78, was not in good health anymore because he had been hospitalized at Westerbork in barrack 83. His wife Bertha Elkus was already locked in on 29 March in Westerbork in baradk 60. Eventually both were put on transport to Sobibor 6 April 1943 and on arrival there on 9 April 1943 Jacob and his wife Bertha were immediately killed.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl; website www.zoekakten.nl, certificates of birth of the children of Levie Levie Lievendag and Hester Frankenhuis; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jacob Lievendag and Bertha Lievendag-Elku (maiden name wrongly spelled – should be Elkus) and an addition of a visitor of the website.