Philip Root was the unmarried son of Mozes Root and Leentje Frank. He wsa born in Amsterdam on 17 may 1896 and worked as warehouse clerk and later also as waiter in Theatre Carré in Amsterdam.
Philip was the 2nd youngest ton of the seven children of Mozes and Leentje. His parents werr married in Paramaribo in 1875 and there in Surinam, his three sisters Esther, Elisabeth Lea and Hanna Marie were b…