Rafael Ensel was a son of David Ensel and Hanna Fransman, a family with 10 children. Three children have died before the war. Besides himself, all his other siblings, Rebecca, Abraham, Andries, Christina, Heintje and Manus have been killed during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of David Ensel, archive card of Raphael Ensel and website www.wiewaswie.nl.