Jeannette van Moppes, the daughter of Zacharia van Moppes and Bella Stibbe, was born in Amsterdam on 14 December 1901. Her father was a diamond worker by trade and up from 1914 he regulary went to Antwerpen. In Amsterdam, Jeannette and her parents lived in the St. Antoniebreestraat and at Gelderschekade.
In 1920 the family moved to Borgerhout, where on 21 August 1929 Jeannette married her first c…