Herman Cohen was a son of Mozes Cohen and Sara Brander. He was born in Amsterdam on 31 July 1897 and married there at the age of 39 on 12 August 1936 the 27-year old Rijntje van Leeuwen, a daughter of Alexander van Leeuwen and Veronica Pos. Rijntje was born in Den Haag on 15 March 1909 and she worked as a day maid in Arnhem, where she then lived at the Amsterdamscheweg 15.
Herman and Rijntje moved…