Abraham de Wilde

Abraham de Wilde came from a family of eight children. His parents, Levie de Wilde and Rachel Baars, had a grocer’s shop on Rapenburgerstraat. Levie de Wilde and his family lived on Sint Antoniebreestraat, at no. 90, ‘buurt C’, in Amsterdam.
Abraham was a clever boy; he skipped the fourth class in primary school. He wanted to be a teacher. But he had to go straight into the diamond business after…

Abraham de Wilde and Sophie Elias Snuijf got married on November 11, 1903. After their marriage, the diamond-cutter Abraham and Sophie Elias Snuijf moved into a house at 2e Jan Steenstraat 117, Amsterdam. Two children were born to them there. In 1906 they moved to 2e Jan Steenstraat 85, where two more children were born.
The youngest child, Judith, died before reaching the age of two. One of the c…