Eva Beek was the eldest of the six children of Simon Beek and Chrisje Koren. She was born on 27 May 1880 and unmarried. Her sisters Elisabeth (10 January 1883), Rebecca (6 August 1885) and Grietje (19 July 1888) were unmarried too. They had two other brothers: the youngest was Isaac, who was married to Aaltje Groen and had a son Leo; their brother Leon, who was born in 1890, passed away at the age…