Selma Hemelrijk, the daughter of merchant Hijman Benjamin Hemelrijk and Esther Sophia Strauss, was born on 16 July 1886 in Seppenrade in Germany. She lived with her parents in Winterswijk, from where she went to work in the housekeeping at the Dutch Israelite Old Men and Women Hospital in Kerkstraat 135 in Amsterdam on 3 February 1914. Halfway through October 1914 she returned to Wooldstraat 40 in…