Simon Salomons was the fourth of the thirteen children of Meijer Salomons and Bloeme de Paauw. He was born in Amsterdam on 17 April 1892 and worked as a brilliant adjuster, office clerk and bookkeeper in a paper products company and during the war years as assistant chief of education at the Jewish Council.
Like his father and brothers, Simon Salomons was also trained in the diamond trade. He then…