The Ball family was a protestant-christian family. Salo was the youngest child. He had some elder brothers. He was small and thin and had stiff upstanding, dark hair and dark eyes. Salo went to the protestant-christian primary school, called Dr. J.Th. de Visserschool, section A, at the West Frankelandsestraat in Schiedam. He was a good pupil and in July 1941 he went from class 5 to 6. He got permi…