Michiel de Vries was a son of Jacob de Vries and Sophie van der Klei. In 1925, he married Agatha van Zuiden in Enschede. They had two sons, Israël and Sophius. The family lived in the Oosterstraat 24 in Winsum. It was a shop with living quarters, which they had built with borrowed money. The husband and wife ran a textile shop from this address.
Michiel was originally a butcher and only later a d…