Schoontje van West

Bloeme van West was born in Amsterdam on 23 March 1877 as a daughter of Joseph Mozes  van West and Vrouwtje Wijnman. As a 15-year old girl she married on 8 March 1893 the 21-year old diamond polisher Hartog van West, a son of Manuel van West and Klara Wurms. Hartog was born on 27 August 1871 in Amsterdam.

The Van West-Van West couple had nine children, of whom the first one, named Joseph, was born…

Schoontje van West was a daughter of Emanuel van West and Heintje Prins. She was born in Amsterdam on 18 February 1919. At that time, her parents still lived at Grote Kattenburgerstraat 158, but moved to Tugelaweg 73 in 1925 and later to house number 83. At the end of May 1929, Emanuel van West's family left Amsterdam for Cape Town in South Africa. 

In April 1930 the family returned to Amsterdam, …