Celine Speijer was born in Antwerp in 1896, she had four younger sisters (Clemence, Maria Henrietta, Berthe, Rachel) , her mother was Anna Cohen (1868-1943) and father was Salomon Speijer (1862–). Both Anna and Salomon were born in Rotterdam, became married in Amsterdam in 1889 and moved to Antwerp where Salomon worked as a diamond cutter. Salomon’s father was Samuel Speijer.
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