Hartog Vogel was a son of Isaac Vogel and Trijntje Lubig. He was born in Amsterdam on 6 April 1893 and worked as a laborer in the Amsterdam harbor. On 4 March 1925, the then 31-year-old Hartog Vogel married the 32-year-old Schoontje Wertheijm, who was born in Amsterdam on 9 May 1892 as the daughter of Levie Wertheijm and Heintje Vogel.
However, their son Levie had been born 9 years earlier: on 24 …