Jan
14
West Family and the Holocaust: The Suffering of a Dutch Jewish Family
My fourth cousin Jozef West and his wife Roossie Tof who both died in Sobibor. He looks alot like my mother's grandfather and his brothers when they were younger who were the sons of Matilda West.
My grandmother's paternal grandmother was an English Jewess called Matilda West who came to Australia from England in 1875 with her husband James Lewis and children. Her parents Simeon Levi West and Mary Ann Payne had arrived in New South Wales in 1869 as well as her brother Simeon Levi West (Uncle Levi) who served as a crypto-Jewish Rabbi or Hazzan like his father. My mother told me that her West ancestor's were descended from Jews from Amsterdam including Rabbi Moses Uri ha Levi (1544-1628) who was connected with the Marranoes and crypto-Jews and from the Witzenhausen family.
My grandmother's paternal grandmother was an English Jewess called Matilda West who came to Australia from England in 1875 with her husband James Lewis and children. Her parents Simeon Levi West and Mary Ann Payne had arrived in New South Wales in 1869 as well as her brother Simeon Levi West (Uncle Levi) who served as a crypto-Jewish Rabbi or Hazzan like his father. My mother told me that her West ancestor's were descended from Jews from Amsterdam including Rabbi Moses Uri ha Levi (1544-1628) who was connected with the Marranoes and crypto-Jews and from the Witzenhausen family.
