Meijer Swaap, a son of Abraham Swaap and Rebecca Arbeid. He was born on 9 July 1891 in Amsterdam and he was working as a typesetter (later as a casual worker), when he married on 8 November 1916 to Branca Jacobs, who was born on 27 November 1895 as a daughter of Samuel Jacobs and Betje Dingsdag. The couple had three children, viz. Rebecca on 10 March 1917, Betje on 8 February 1921 and Abraham on 1…