Betsie van West was the eldest of the three children of Jacob van West and Judith Gobets. She was born in Amsterdam on 20 March 1921 and lived with her parents and younger sister Keetje at Retiefstraat 88 in East Amsterdam. But in fact Jacob van West's family lived in with his parents-in-law Jacob Gobets and Betsie Barend.
Betsie van West had completed a ULO education and started working as an off…