Hijman Bierman was the third of the four children of the second marriage of Levie Bierman and Heintje Jas. He was born on 11 December 1914, was exempted from the military service in the National Militia due to brotherly service, worked as a diamond polisher and later he had a job as a coal worker too. He married Greta Soep in Amsterdam on 10 September 1941; she was a daughter of Isaac Soep and Kla…