Maurits de Levie

Maurits de Levie (born July 27, 1890 in Groningen , Netherlands ; died around October 19, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Dutch entertainer and victim of the Holocaust.

Life

Coming from the north of the Netherlands, de Levie began looking for a professional career in vaudeville entertainment at an early age and, together with his wife Engeltje Graveur (30 July 1895 - around 19 October 1942), who was also from Groningen, ran the own, small cabaret and stage company called 'De Malini's'. Both repertoire included revues and variety shows with conferences , music, ventriloquist acts , vocal lectures and humorous interludes. Special children's programs with clown acts, puppet shows and performances of magic tricks have been put together for the younger viewers.

The Jewish couple was arrested in the summer of 1942 and immediately deported to the Westerbork transit camp . From there, German agencies deported Maurits de Levie and his daughters Sophie (1925–1942) and Henriette (1927–1942), who worked in the family's own entertainment business, to the Auschwitz extermination camp on October 16 of the same year. His wife Engeltje was probably also among the deportees. Maurits de Levie was allegedly gassed immediately upon arrival; whether the daughters survived this year is rather unlikely.

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 221.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 391.

Web link

• Maurits de Levie in Joods Monument