Levie Jonas Wilda, Hendrika Wilda-Stern
Hendrika Stern lived at 23 Noordeinde; she was married to Levie Jonas Wilda. Hendrika, (born in Hoogeveen, 25th of January 1860) was the daughter of Benjamin Meijer Stern, who lived at Hoogeveen.
Levie Jonas Wilda (one of twins) was born at Harlingen on the 19th of December 1864. The couple had five children: Heintje Levie, Evalina Froukje, Jonas, Jonas Levie and Klaartje Henriette. Heintje and Evalina remained in Meppel.
Heintje married Philippus Zaligman, Evalina married Salomon Zaligman. In the thirties Mr. and Mrs.Wilda bought the house of the Homans family on Noordeinde, who had moved to Timorstraat. At that time Mr Wilda was retired, and probably wanted to live closer to his children in Meppel.
A former boy next door, F. Woldman, remembers the granddaughters Hendrika and Hendrejette (one of whom had red curly hair) regularly skipping along the houses in the alley, going to the back door of their grandparents' house. In 1942, Mr and Mrs Wilda, respectively 78 and 82 years of age were, just like all the other Jews, taken from their house without mercy and sent to Westerbork. On the 8th of October, the old couple died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
An old lady, standing in front of the Wilda family's house. Before the war the number of the house was 23 and after the war it was 21.