Barend Vos was the eighth of the ten children of Hijman Vos and Lea van West. He was born on 31 March 1894 at Rapenburg in Amsterdam and married there on 14 March 1917 Naatje Peeper, a daughter of Jesaia Peeper and Sara Erwteman. The couple had a son Leonard, who was born in 1922 in Belgium but he was killed during the Shoah.
Just like his father, Barend worked as diamond worker. Later he became a…