Arie Zilverberg was a son of Samuel Zilverberg and Betje Stoppelman. He married 1 February 1905 in Amsterdam to Sophie Potsdammer, daughter of Tobias Potsdammer and his first wife Frederica Schweiger. Sophie however died on 19 October 1905 in Coevorden, aged 30, and Arie remarried 17 August 1906 to Frederica Potsdammer, a daughter of Tobias Potsdammer and his second wife Jeanette Vos, daughter of …