Rebecca Busnach was born in Amsterdam on 18 August 1911 as the 2nd of the five children of Joseph Busnach and Margaretha van West. She married Simon Menist on 7 June 1939 in Amsterdam, who was born there on 16 January 1914. Rebecca and Simon had a daughter who was born on 9 August 1940, named Dolores Branca and who survived the Holocaust by hiding.
Simon Menist was a son of Meijer Menist and Bran…