Elisabeth van Engers was the sixth of the seven children of Nathan Jacob van Engers and Sophia Sanders. She was born in Rotterdam on 27 April 1914 and she worked as a sales lady since 1930 and in later years in Rotterdam and Amsterdam as a housekeeper.
Just like her siblings, Elisabeth lived at home with her parents and left with them on 23 May 1929 for Nijmegen. There she resided with the other m…