Hijman van Emden was a son of Arnold van Emden and Truida Hakker. He was married and had two children. Because of his marriage to a non-Jewish wife Hijman van Emden was exempted from deportation. The day after New Year 1943 he got a call to report to the headquarters of the Rotterdam police at the Haagse Veer. A neighbour, whose husband had taken voluntary service in the SS, had made a charge aga…