Abraham Pijpeman was a son of Wolf Pijpeman, dealer in sponges, and Roosje Trijtel. Abraham had six other brothers and one sister, namely Hartog, Samuel Hartog, Meijer, Joseph, Jacob, Philip and Sara. Only his sister Sara has survived the Holocaust. His mother passed away already in 1926 in Rotterdam but his father and all his brothers were killed in the Shoah.
When he was almost 7 years old, had…