Hartog Tertaas was a son of Mozes Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda. He married 15 May 1919 in Amsterdam Clara Huijsman, a daughter of Machiel Huijsman and Jacomina Frankfort.
Hartog was born in a family with seven children. Two of them survived the war. His other siblings, Elisabeth, Benjamin, Philip and Gidion, have been killed all in the Shoah.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Mozes Tertaas, …