Willy Elia (NOT Elias) Levin, an intelligent charming man, was the youngest child of Annette Weinberg and Abram Adolph Levin.
Being a businessman, he used to travel alot to France and Belgium.
On September 1936 he married Eva Leuvenberg and a year later their daughter, Annette, was born.
They lived happily in Rotterdam until the German invasion into Holland on May 1940.
Willy, who was in Antwerp on business, could not go back and join his family in Rotterdam, mainly as all the bridges were blown up by the German conqueror.
He kept writing letters to his family from his hideways in Belgium and France, until he was arrested in Cannes, on September 1943, while playing Chess on a cafe terrace. Even then, he hasn't lost his typical sense of humor, requesting them to let him finish the game first.
He was jailed in Drancy concentration camp and on October 7th 1943, he was transfered to Auschwitz.
His wife and daughter survived the horrors of the Holocaust and managed to establish a large extended family in Israel, embracing grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Our dear Willy, the grandfather we have never got to have, was known as a warm and loving son, husband and father. His memory is always treasured in our hearts and will be forever blessed among us all.