
Age 32. 131 Freeman Street, Brookline, MA. Born on 11/04/1910, Lewiston, ME. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). Known informally as "Addie." In a main dining room gathering of six with her husband Theodore "Ted," age 39, her married older sister Mrs. Sadie Levin and the latter's husband Bernard "Ben," ages 36 and 40 respectively, of Newton, MA, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph and Amelia Bernstein, ages 46 and 41, of Portland, ME. Mr. Levin (Born 7/04/1902. Died 3/05/1971, age 68. Last residence Newton, MA) was the lone party survivor. A pair of older couples (otherwise unconnected), posed as a foursome by roving club photographer Doris "Lynne" Andrews, age 24 (Born 6/09/1918. Died on 9/19/1945, pulmonary tuberculosis, age 27) about three hours before the blaze, was misidentified as the Wassermans by author Paul Benzaquin in his 1959 book Holocaust!. Error was possibly due to misinterpretation of a vague photo caption in the 12/03/1942 Boston Evening Globe, which observed the chance appearance of Mrs. Levin in the image background (actual caption: "Identification of persons of this picture, originally printed in the Morning Globe, was made today by Irving J. Finn, whose sister-in-law, Mrs. Sadie Levin, is seen smiling in the center...Others in the party who lost their lives are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wasserman..."). Reported by Miss Andrews that the unidentified elder subjects refused the print and left the club well before the fire broke (and never came forward nor were ever identified). Was raised in Boston and Brookline. Graduate of Wheaton College, Norton, MA, and Boston University Law School. Married in 1933, in Boston. With her husband relocated from Portland, ME, to nearby Brookline one month prior. Survived by sons Barry Lee, age 7, William, age 2, and Robert, age 9 months. Orphaned sons were later raised by the above Mr. Finn and his wife Lillian "Libby" (neither present, latter was a married younger sister of Mrs. Wasserman). Parents Mr. and Mrs. Israel M. and Gertrude R. (Smithkins) Levin. Burial with her husband and victim sister at Grove Street (Adath Jeshurun) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA. A shared stone shows a common death date of "November 30," correct for Mrs. Levin but not for the Wassermans who both succumbed on November 28 (death certificates).