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Name: LEVITAN, Sarah
Nee: forename Chaya anglicised to Sarah
Birth Date: 1888 Zeimelis, Lithuania
Death Date: 10 Mar 1942 Nairobi
Last Date: 1942
Area: Nairobi
Married: Maurice Levitan (1888-1945)
Children: Charles (28 Aug 1916 Zeimelis, Lithuania-11 Jan 1997 Nairobi); Philip Max (4 Mar 1919 Zeimelis-10 July 1989 Chigwell, Essex); Hymie Saul (3 May 1924 Zeimelis-22 Nov 2010 Essex)
Book Reference: Barnes, Glimpses
General Information:
Nairobi South cemetery - died 10 Mar 1942 aged 54, British Jew Wife of Maurice Levitan, also buried in Nairobi South
Glimpses - Anton Levitan says - "My father Charles Levitan, came to East Africa as a six-year-old, with his parents Maurice and Sarah Levitan. He had been born in Lithuania just across the Latvian border, near Riga, but in 1922 my grandparents emigrated to Kenya with Charles who was just 6 years old.