The eldest son of Andries van Embden and Sara Mok, named Barend, was an upholsterer by profession. He left Amsterdam for Rotterdam on 21 September 1934, to be married there on 16 January 1935 with the non-Jewish Henrika Gijsbertha Posthuma. They had two children: Antje Hendrika Gijsbertha and Sara Jeannette. After almost three years, on 12 April 1937 the family moved to the Wesselstraat 120 in Den…