Simon David was a son of Hartog David and Hendrika van der Sluijs. He was born on 11 August 1865 in Rotterdam in a family of in total six children: that were Levie (1857), Rosetta (1860), Elizabeth (1863), Wolf (1868), Isaac (1875) and Simon himself. His parents married in November 1857 but his father did not grow old: he died at the age of 50 in 1884 and his mother only in 1917, aged 82.
When Sim…