Lion Waas, the eldest of the three children of Salomon Waas and Debora Delden, was born on 31 January 1918 in Amsterdam. With his parents and twinbrothers Hijman and Jacob the Waas family left for Antwerp in September 1928, where father Salomon found a job as diamond polisher; they lived in Antwerp and in Deurne. They returned to Amsterdam mid April 1930 where they found room to live in with Mozes…