Elise Spiero was born on 16 August 1874 in Heinsberg in Germany as the daughter of Simon Spiero and Mettchen Stern. On 4 November 1894 she married at the age of 20 the 34 year old son of Raphael Spiero and Bertha Frank, the shopkeeper and textiles merchant Levy Spiero and lived in the Weststraße 2 in Wattenscheid (Germany). There they had a large store and they lived above the store. Levy Spiero w…