Family tree Simmeren » Levie "Louis" Smit (1927-1943)
Personal data Levie "Louis" Smit
- Nickname is Louis.
- He was born on August 28, 1927 in Zaandam (Nh).
- He died on April 2, 1943 in Sobibór (Biala Podleska-PL), he was 15 years old.
- A child of Meijer Smit and Henderina Simmeren
- This information was last updated on July 8, 2017.
Household of Levie "Louis" Smit
Notes about Levie "Louis" Smit
Met dank aan verzetsman Jan Hof:
Levie (alias: Louis) speelde in 1940 in een jeugdelftal van ZFC. “Een aardige, gevatte knul”, volgens de journalist Wim Swart: “Die meestal, niet boosaardig, ‘joodje Smit’ of ook wel ‘Louis’ werd genoemd.”
Levie ofwel Louis (15), de voetballer, werd vóór zijn moeder, Salomon ofwel Sally en de vijf zusjes in Sobibor omgebracht, een maand eerder, op 2 april 1943.
Louis, Debora en Rebecca
De drie oudere kinderen van het gezin Smit werden op andere dagen vermoord. Zijn zus Debora zat in een later Sobibor-transport. Debora Smit (17) werd op 28 mei 1943 door vergassing om het leven gebracht. Het oudste meisje, Rebecca (19), was de laatste van het gezin die uit Westerbork naar Sobibor werd gedeporteerd. Zij overleed op 16 juli 1943.
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Birthday August 28, 1927
- The temperature on August 28, 1927 was between 11.0 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
- In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
- January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
- May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
- May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
- June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
- December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Day of death April 2, 1943
- The temperature on April 2, 1943 was between 3.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- March 6 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
- May 22 » Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
- June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
- June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
- August 23 » World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.
- October 31 » World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
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