Benjamin Tertaas was a son of Mozes Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda. He married 27 February 1919 in Amsterdam Julia Mina van Gelder, a daughter of Salomon Levie van Gelder and Siena Cune. The couple had three children: Rebecca, Siena and Elisabeth.
Benjamin was born in a family with seven children. Two of them survived the war. His other siblings, Elisabeth, Hartog, Philip and Gidion, have been killed all in the Shoah.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Mozes Tertaas, Benjamin Tertaas and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
A former girl-next-door remembers that during the war police officers came into the shop of Benjamin Tertaas, with the accusation that his pair of scales was rigged. He then was taken away and never returned. Some time later the rest of the family went to 'visit' him in the Hollandsche Schouwburg and never came back.
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