Anne Groenteman was born on 26 September 1936 as the second child of Meijer Machiel Groenteman and Lena Kroonenberg. She had a brother John, who was a year older than she, and two years later another sister, Jeannette, was born.
Her father was a tailor and had a workshop where coats were made. Her mother was a seamstress. The family lived in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat at number 61 groundfloor. They ha…