Netty Waterman was the only daughter of Kaatje David and Meijer Waterman. She was born on 19 November 1933 in the Roerstraat 30 parterre in Amsterdam, but with their parents, she moved in 1935 to Rotterdam. There, after some more removals in the city, she lived since June 1938 at Hofdijk 29b.
Possibly as a result of the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, Netty's parents were ordered to ev…