Benjamin Tertaas was a son of Mozes Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda. He married 27 February 1919 in Amsterdam Julia Mina van Gelder, a daughter of Salomon Levie van Gelder and Siena Cune. The couple had three children: Rebecca, Siena and Elisabeth.
Benjamin was born in a family with seven children. Two of them survived the war. His other siblings, Elisabeth, Hartog, Philip and Gidion, have been killed a…