Lion Heijmans was a son of Heiman Hertz Heijmans and Jula Cossmann. He married Martha Linz on 27 April 1918. Four children were born to the couple, two of whom survived the war. In 1917, Lion Heijmans took over C. Cossmann’s manufacturing business at Sternstrasse 9 in Borken, in Germany. In 1928 he rented a two-storey house from the city of Borken, at Mühlenstrasse 13, which became both the family…