Salomon Swart was the ninth child of Nathan Swart, a peddler, and Johanna Groen. His parents died before the war. Salomon Swart was an errand boy and later became a diamond polisher. He married Grietje Deutz, daughter of Jacob Levie Deutz and Sara Haas, in Amsterdam on 25 February 1903.
The couple had seven children: Sara, Johanna, Jacob, Elisabeth, Nathan, Louis and a daughter Catharina who die…