Hijman Waas was the eldest of the twins who were born on March 1, 1920 in the family of Salomon Waas and Debora Delden. His brother Jacob was born shortly afterwards. Hijman had an older brother Lion, who was born in 1918.
The Waas family left for Antwerp in September 1928, where father Salomon found a job as diamond polisher and they lived in Antwerp and in Deurne. They returned to Amsterdam in A…