Hijman Vos was the second child of Wolf Vos and Henriette van Leeuwen. He was born in Amsterdam on 23 June 1907 but left already with his mother and his brother Lion, who was born later on 16 December 1908, to Antwerp. His father was a diamond worker and stayed already often in Belgium to earn a living there.
On 18 January 1909 also mother Henriette Vos van Leeuwen left Amsterdam for Antwerp with …