Gerrit Schenkkan was the youngest son of Levie Schenkkan and Marianne Peper. He was a tailor by profession. On 24 October 1923 he married in Amsterdam the German Marian Pollinger from Nuremberg, from whom he was divorced five years later on 23 March 1928. Gerrit and Maria had no children together.
On 11 April 1928 Gerrit married again to Rachel Abrahams, a daughter of Maurits Abrahams and Clara Fr…