Lena Reiwit was born on 25 February 1862 in Kofnow in Russia. She was married to Friedrich Michel, who was born on 1 August 1860 in Koben, Russia. The then 24-year-old Friedrich and the 22-year-old Lena came to Amsterdam in the summer of 1884 and found accommodation at Zandstraat 21. Their first child, Marcus, was born there on 19 September of that year. Friedrich Michel was a shoemaker by trade a…