Pietje Mendels was a daughter of Abraham Mendels and Mina Davidson, a family with nine children, of whom six have died in the Holocaust: Pietje herself, Betje, Emanuel, Hendrica,Levi, and Sara. The other children have died at young age.
Pietje married 30 December 1936 in Amsterdam to Salomon van Straten, widower of the in 1934 deceased Anaatje van Gelder. He was a son of Samuel van Straten and Maria Adriana van Straten.
websites www.tresoar.nl, www.wiewaswie.nl and Descendants of Zadok Manes (van Straten)
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