Untill 14 May 1940 Isaac van Baale lived with his family at the Gedempte Slaak in Rotterdam. The family lived in a house behind the small shop where Isaac van Baale sold drapery.
On Sundays the baker used to make his round through the neighbourhood selling his goods from a wooden bakersbarrow or bicycle. A former neighbour remembered that Johanna Meijer used to prepare the bread with salted meat…