Daniel de Haan, diamond polisher by trade, was born in Amsterdam on 12 November 1912 as a son of Simon de Haan and Anna Engelsman. On 10 April 1940 he married in Amsterdam Alida Vogel, born there too on 2 August 1914 as a daughter of Joseph Vogel and his first wife Lina de Korte and employed as a seamstress. The couple had no children.
Daniel’s father Simon de Haan, who was a joiner by trade, pas…