Philip van Loon was a son of Salomon van Loon and Marianna Bonewit, who both passed away already before the war.
He married 3 January 1923 in Amsterdam to Sophia Gobets, a daughter of Jacob Gobets and Betje Barend. The couple had three children.
Philip was born in a family with 10 children. One little sister died in 1896, only 2 years old. One brother and one sister have survived the war but the other siblings, namely Clara, Isaac, Hijman, Vogelina, Nathan and Louis have been killed during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Salomon van Loon, Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp nr. 107923/658 and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
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