Simon Stokvisch, the youngest of the five children of Abraham Stokvisch and Sara Waas, was born in Borgerhout (Antwerp) on 7 November 1907 and became a diamond worker by profession and later a driver. From June 1895 his parents had already left for Antwerp, but at some point they left for Düsseldorf-Rath.
On 18 September 1916, the Stokvisch family returned from Düsseldorf-Rath back in Amsterdam, l…