Juda Fruitmann, who was born on 21 December 1899 in Amsterdam, was the eldest of the two children of Marcus Fruitmann and Klaartje Muller. Juda had another brother, born in 1905 but already died in 1916. His mother Klaartje passed in 1911 and his father Marcus remarried in 1912 to Susanna Stokvis.
Juda was examined for the National Militia but was declared unfit for it. He had done the 3-year trad…