Joseph van Engers, the third of the seven children of Nathan Jacob van Engers and Sophia Sanders, was born in Rotterdam on 26 October 1909. He was out of work for a long time but from 1930 he tried to earn a living as a dealer in irregular goods.
Just like his siblings, Joseph lived at home with his parents and left with them on 23 May 1929 for Nijmegen. There he resided with the other members of …