Jozeph de Vries was a son of Meijer de Vries and Mietje van Coeverden. He was born on 3 January 1897 in Coevorden and in the next year, in November 1898 from the Vierwindenstraat in Rotterdam he came to live in Amsterdam with his parents.
Jozeph de Vries, who earned his living as a variety show singer, married in Amsterdam on 3 January 1929 the non-Jewish widow of Joseph Boelen, Johanna Louisa Gro…