Rebecca Vos, the third child of Isaäc Vos and Mietje Visser, was born on 27 October 1894 in Amsterdam. She remained unmarried, started her working life in the diamond industry but later she became a nurse. Per September 1928 she worked as a hall nurse in the N.I.Z., the Dutch Israëlitic Hospital, which was located at Kerkstraat 135 in Amsterdam.
When Rebecca Vos was 14 years old, she was admitted …