Aron Barendse was a son of Isaac Barendse and Sophia van Gich, born on 10 September 1904 in Rotterdam. He was a commercial traveller by profession and married – presumably in Dordrecht – the non-Jewish Dirkje Elisabeth Rackwitz. In 1944 a son was born, Willem Victor August Barendse, who however died, only 2 years old on 4 April 1946 in Rotterdam.
After the passing of his father at the age of 27 y…