Herman Bedak, also known as Chaim Eliazer Bedak, was the son of Leib Bedak and Pesha Gordorovsky. He was probably born in Augustów, Poland (or Letvia). He married Dora Feigel Bialystok, who changed her name to Dora Petenbaum. During the First World War, they took the Turkish nationality, which made it possible them for to emigrate to the Netherlands without difficulty.
Herman Bedak worked as a ci…