Michel Velleman


Michel Velleman, known by his stage name Professor Ben Ali Libi, was a Jewish magician who was murdered in the Sobibor death camp during World War II. Dutch poet Willem Wilmink wrote a poem about his being murdered by the Nazis.
Velleman was living in Amsterdam on 59 when he was abducted during a razzia in 1942. He wrote a book of magic tricks that was published in 1925.